Joseph Mallord William Turner

Seascape, with Sailing Boat

c.1822–3

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In Tate Britain

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Ports of England Sketchbook
Medium
Watercolour on paper
Dimensions
Support: 257 x 178 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D17724
Turner Bequest CCII 5

Catalogue entry

The central focus of this swiftly wrought colour sketch is the fishing coble, rendered in a warm ochre wash. Turner depicts its curving bow and trapezoid lugsail in a few deft strokes. In shape and colour, it resembles the coble in the finished Ports watercolours Whitby and Dover (Tate D18143, D18154; Turner Bequest CCVIII J, U). Short downward dry brush-strokes of blue and ochre wash adroitly represent specks of cloud.
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Alice Rylance-Watson
March 2013

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