Joseph Mallord William Turner

Yachts under Sail

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 × 112 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D41018

Catalogue entry

These drawings, made in three bands with the page turned vertically, show large racing yachts manoeuvring in relation to smaller sailing boats. For more on studies in this sketchbook relating to the regatta events at Cowes from late July 1827 onwards, see the Introduction.

The page is inscribed by the Executors of the Turner Bequest, Charles Turner, John Prescott Knight and Charles Lock Eastlake, in ink ‘N^o 341 Contains 68 | Leaves, in Pencil & Colors | C Turner’ and in pencil ‘JPK’, ‘C.L.E.’ and (?in the latter’s hand) ‘68 counting | the wrappers’ at the bottom right, descending vertically relative to the drawings, and inverted in terms of the sketchbook’s foliation.

Matthew Imms
November 2015

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