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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Yacht under Sail, Perhaps off Cowes; a Study of a Hull 1827

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Yacht under Sail, Perhaps off Cowes; a Study of a Hull’ 1827
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
A Yacht under Sail, Perhaps off Cowes; a Study of a Hull 1827
D20903
Turner Bequest CCXXVIII 43
Gouache and pencil on blue wove paper, 144 x 189 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram towards bottom centre
Stamped in black ‘CCCCVIII 43’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is among dozens of blue paper studies presumably made in connection with the Cowes Regatta events in the late summer of 1827; for several other closely observed studies of individual vessels, see the Introduction to this subsection. The low coastline and buildings in the background may be at Cowes or elsewhere along the Solent. There is a separate study of a hull at the top right.
As noted there, the present work and thirty-four other sheets were recorded in Finberg’s 1909 Inventory as unmounted, and ‘formed part of [a] parcel’ labelled by John Ruskin ‘O. 232. Chalk scrawls on grey. Rubbish.’1
1
Finberg 1909, II, p.702.
Technical notes:
The sheet is somewhat stained down its right-hand edge.
Verso:
Blank; inscribed in red ink ‘418’ bottom left; inscribed in pencil ‘CCXXVIII . 43’ bottom right. Despite Finberg’s statement that this sheet was unmounted, the remnants of white mounting paper or tape are evident at the corners.

Matthew Imms
November 2015

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Yacht under Sail, Perhaps off Cowes; a Study of a Hull 1827 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-a-yacht-under-sail-perhaps-off-cowes-a-study-of-a-hull-r1183438, accessed 19 April 2024.