Joseph Mallord William Turner

Yachts off ?East Cowes

1827

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: Cowes, the River Medina and Shipping
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 144 x 191 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D20868
Turner Bequest CCXXVIII 8

Catalogue entry

This is among dozens of blue paper studies presumably made in connection with the Cowes Regatta events in the late summer of 1827; see the Introduction to this subsection for others possibly featuring East Cowes Castle on the skyline above the River Medina.

As noted there, the present work and eight other sheets were recorded in Finberg’s 1909 Inventory as mounted, and ‘formed part of a bundle’ labelled by John Ruskin ‘O. 166. Shipping, &c. rubbish’,1 although the nine are now all numbered ‘232 | O’ on their versos in common with the rest of the Turner Bequest CCXXVIII grouping, which Finberg noted as unmounted and ‘part of parcel endorsed, “O. 232. Chalk scrawls on grey. Rubbish.”’2

1

Finberg 1909, II, p.702.

2

Ibid.

Verso:

Blank; inscribed in pencil ‘232 | O’ bottom right; inscribed in pencil ‘CCXXVIII . 8’ top left, upside down.

Matthew Imms
November 2015

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