Joseph Mallord William Turner

Yachts Passing a Moored Ship

1827

Image released under Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND (3.0 Unported)

License this image

In Tate Britain

Prints and Drawings Room

View by appointment
Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Cowes Regatta Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 74 × 100 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D18083
Turner Bequest CCVII 49

Catalogue entry

Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, only the sails of the yachts in the foreground are shown. Beyond to the left are the masts of a large ship, probably a warship, moored and bedecked with flags or bunting, as seen in the background of the painting East Cowes Castle, the Seat of J. Nash, Esq.; the Regatta Beating to Windward, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1828 (Indianapolis Museum of Art).1 For more on studies in this sketchbook relating to the regatta events at Cowes from late July 1827 onwards, see the sketchbook Introduction.

Matthew Imms
December 2014

1
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, p.150 no.242, pl.246 (colour).

Read full Catalogue entry

Explore

You might like

Left Right

In the shop

Browse the shop