Joseph Mallord William Turner

Yachts Passing a Moored Warship

1827

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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: D18100
Turner Bequest CCVII 57 a

Catalogue entry

Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, yachts are shown passing on both sides of a three-masted warship, moored and bedecked with bunting or flags; compare the one 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

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).

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