Joseph Mallord William Turner

Studies of Boats and Figures: Passengers Disembarking from the Packet at Calais

c.1802

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Calais Pier Sketchbook
Medium
Chalk on paper
Dimensions
Support: 436 × 271 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D04981
Turner Bequest LXXXI 79

Catalogue entry

This is a continuation of the drawing on folio 40 verso opposite (D04980; Turner Bequest LXXXI 78), under which the principal subject is discussed. The sketch that appears upside–down in the upper part of the design seems to show a cow on a raft and may relate to the watercolour Lake of Geneva, with Mont Blanc from the Lake of about 1805 (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven);1 see under folio 8 verso (D04917; Turner Bequest LXXXI 16).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.342 no.370, reproduced.

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