Joseph Mallord William Turner

A Sailing Boat at Sea

c.1829–30

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Marine Dabblers Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 113 x 89 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D22503
Turner Bequest CCXLI 37 a

Catalogue entry

Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this single-masted boat is indicated in a potentially wider context by the simple expedient of the horizon line which passes through the zigzag hatching of its dark hull. It was perhaps observed off Margate; see the sketchbook’s Introduction.

Matthew Imms
May 2014

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