Joseph Mallord William Turner

Sailing Boats with East Cowes Castle in the Distance

1827

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Cowes Regatta Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 74 × 100 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D18075
Turner Bequest CCVII 45

Catalogue entry

Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this slight study shows sailing boats moored off East Cowes Castle. For more on studies in this sketchbook relating to the regatta events at Cowes from late July 1827 onwards, see the sketchbook Introduction, and for other views of the castle, see under folio 22 recto (D18030).
Technical notes:
There is prominent brown staining, apparently from a spillage, which has been offset onto folio 44 verso opposite (D18074) and soaked through to the verso (D18076).

Matthew Imms
December 2014

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