Joseph Mallord William Turner

A Fishing Smack off Dover

1802

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: Small Calais Pier Sketchbook
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 112 x 187 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D04268
Turner Bequest LXXI 66

Catalogue entry

Numbered by Finberg as folio 66 of this sketchbook, this has since been rebound as folio 20. Dover Castle is clearly visible. Turner must have sketched it and the cliffs of the British shore as he sailed away to France.

Verso:

Slight brown ink offset of a rowing boat from the sketch Ships in a Breeze from folio 21 of this sketchbook (D04274). Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘868’

David Blayney Brown
April 2003

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