Joseph Mallord William Turner

Fishing Smacks at Sea

1802

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: Small Calais Pier Sketchbook
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 112 x 187 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D04270
Turner Bequest LXXI 68

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Numbered by Finberg as folio 68 of this sketchbook, this has since been rebound as folio 18.

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Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘872’ bottom left, and in a later hand in pencil ‘LXXI p 681’ top left

David Blayney Brown
April 2003

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