Joseph Mallord William Turner

Hulk and Barges

c.1805–7

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In Tate Britain

Prints and Drawings Room

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
River and Margate Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 115 × 190 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D06413
Turner Bequest XCIX 32

Catalogue entry

See note to folio 35 recto (D06411; Turner Bequest XCIX 31) for further comment on the relationship to The Confluence of the Thames and the Medway (Tate T03874; displayed at Petworth House) exhibited at Turner’s Gallery in 18081 and possibly earlier. The large sailing barge in this sketch was used for the picture together with the two men-of-war at anchor in folio 35.
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Butlin and Joll 1984, pp.57–8 no.75 (pl.85).
Verso:
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David Blayney Brown
March 2009

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