Joseph Mallord William Turner

Fishing Boats under Sail

c.1799–1802

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Studies for Pictures Sketchbook
Medium
Ink and graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 135 × 210 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D04148
Turner Bequest LXIX 129 a

Catalogue entry

Made with the page turned horizontally, this is one of a group of sketches showing fishing boats in a tight group; see also folios 95 recto, 104 recto and 127 recto (D04110, D04120, D04145; Turner Bequest LXIX 96, 105, 128). Some of these seem related to the picture Turner exhibited in 1801 as Dutch Boats in a Gale: Fishermen Endeavouring to Put their Fish on Board (‘The Bridgewater Seapiece’) (private collection, on long loan to the National Gallery, London).1

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, pp.12–13 no.14, pl.11 (colour).

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