J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Isle of Wight 1827 > Cowes, the River Medina and Shipping > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Offset: A Quay and Shipping at East Cowes, with Cowes across the River Medina date not known

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Offset: A Quay and Shipping at East Cowes, with Cowes across the River Medina’ date not known
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Offset: A Quay and Shipping at East Cowes, with Cowes across the River Medina
D40526
Ink offset on off-white wove paper, 143 x 210 mm
Inscribed in pencil ‘6’ bottom right
Naturally not mentioned in Finberg’s 1909 Inventory,1 this ephemeral modern sheet is a reversed offset of the dense ink drawing on Tate D20854 (Turner Bequest CCXXVII a 51), formed as part of the recovery process in the aftermath of the Tate Gallery flood of 1928.
There are two similar instances in the present subsection, and three in the parallel ‘East Cowes Castle’ subsection, as noted in their Introductions; numerous examples related to early figure studies are listed in the Introduction to the ‘Royal Academy c.1789–99’ section.
Verso:
Blank, laid down.

Matthew Imms
November 2015

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Offset: A Quay and Shipping at East Cowes, with Cowes across the River Medina by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, November 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-offset-a-quay-and-shipping-at-east-cowes-with-cowes-across-r1183385, accessed 25 April 2024.