Joseph Mallord William Turner

Studies of Shipping and Figures

1827

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Windsor and Cowes, Isle of Wight Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 192 x 112 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D20689
Turner Bequest CCXXVI 58 a

Catalogue entry

These three sketches were made with the page turned vertically. The first two show crowded scenes of yachts under sail off shore, apparently with a further detail of sails at the top right. The lowest shows two women, characterised almost to the point of caricature by their large bonnets, apparently on the shore and possibly in relation to other figures in a rowing boat; for other studies of spectators, see under folio 13 recto (D20615; Turner Bequest CCXXVI 12). There are colour notes beside the right-hand figure. For more on studies in this sketchbook relating to the regatta events at Cowes from late July 1827 onwards, see the Introduction.

Matthew Imms
November 2015

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