Joseph Mallord William Turner

A Two-Masted Sailing Ship Seen from the Shore

c.1798

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Drawings Connected with the Kent and Welsh Tours of 1798, and Other Works
Medium
Watercolour on paper
Dimensions
Support: 99 x 143 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D00895
Turner Bequest XXXIII X

Catalogue entry

This little sheet, which has much in common both stylistically and in terms of palette with a view probably showing the Kent coast (Tate D00701, Turner Bequest XXVIII P), may have been painted at much the same time and place, at or near Margate.
Technical notes:
The subject is painted within an unmarked white border, approximately 3 mm wide, on the left and right sides and at the bottom.
Verso:
Blank

Andrew Wilton
March 2013

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