Joseph Mallord William Turner

Boats Sailing ?in Holland

1835

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Rotterdam Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 95 × 153 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D32454
Turner Bequest CCCXXI 6

Catalogue entry

Here Turner has rendered two rough sketches of boats sailing on a windy day, possibly on Holland’s North Sea coast near Goeree (see Tate D32452; Turner Bequest CCCXXI 5).

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2016

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