Joseph Mallord William Turner

A Ship in Distress and a Lifeboat in Rough Seas

c.1805

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Shipwreck (1) Sketchbook
Medium
Dimensions
Support: 118 x 185 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D05396
Turner Bequest LXXXVII 21

Catalogue entry

Although Finberg implies otherwise, the sketch has no direct connection with Turner’s picture The Shipwreck (Tate N00476),1 for which see Introduction to the sketchbook.

David Blayney Brown
January 2006

1
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, p.43 no.54 (pl. 64).

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