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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Margate, London and Surrey c.1829-45 > Kent Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Sailing Boats, Probably on the River Stour at Sandwich c.1830

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sailing Boats, Probably on the River Stour at Sandwich’ c.1830
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 41 Recto:
Sailing Boats, Probably on the River Stour at Sandwich c.1830
D35829
Turner Bequest CCCLXIII 40
Pencil on white wove paper, 43 x 76 mm
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘40’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCCLXIII – 40’ centre right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned vertically, there are studies of two sailing boats with a tower beyond. They may be the same craft seen in the view of Sandwich from the River Stour made with the sketchbook inverted on folio 40 verso opposite (D35828; Turner Bequest CCCLXIII 39a), which continues inconsequentially towards the left here, at right-angles to the drawing with which it overlaps. There are further studies of shipping on the verso (D35830).
For other views of Sandwich, see under folio 6 recto (D35767).
Technical notes:
As Finberg noted, this leaf is ‘partly torn’ away1 for reasons unknown, leaving less than half of it; its height is thus only 43 mm rather than what would originally have been 98 mm.

Matthew Imms
September 2016

1
Finberg 1909, II, p.1178.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Sailing Boats, Probably on the River Stour at Sandwich c.1830 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2016, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-sailing-boats-probably-on-the-river-stour-at-sandwich-r1183790, accessed 25 April 2024.