Joseph Mallord William Turner

Two Sailing Ships

1825

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Mortlake and Pulborough Sketchbook
Medium
Watercolour on paper
Dimensions
Support: 113 × 187 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D18821
Turner Bequest CCXIII 80

Catalogue entry

Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, the two sailing ships seen in isolation here were perhaps observed in the Pool of London, down-river of Old London Bridge on the Thames. Sketches on adjacent pages relate to the foundation stone ceremony for the bridge’s replacement on 15 June 1825.

Matthew Imms
December 2014

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