Joseph Mallord William Turner

A Fishing Boat Putting out to Sea

1801

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Chester Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 161 × 256 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D05158
Turner Bequest LXXXII 77

Catalogue entry

Like this sketches on folios 75 verso, 76 recto and 77 verso (D05154–D05156; Turner Bequest LXXXII 75a, 76, 76a), this slight sketch appears to be related to the painting Fishermen upon a Lee–Shore, in Squally Weather, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1802 (Southampton Art Gallery).1 The unclear pencil inscription may be part of the draft letter or speech noted inside the front cover (D40695).
1
Butlin and Joll 1984, pp.15–16 no.16, pl.12 (colour).
Technical notes:
There are brown ink trials at the top right.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

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