Joseph Mallord William Turner

Yachts under Sail; Sailing Boats Moored off East Cowes Castle

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: 112 x 192 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D20714
Turner Bequest CCXXVI 72 a

Catalogue entry

These quick drawings are inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation. There are at least two, and possibly three or even four separate studies, with a view separated by pencil lines at the top centre showing a yacht passing boats moored on the River Medina, with East Cowes Castle (see under folio 1 verso; D20597) outlined on the skyline beyond. Below are studies of yachts manoeuvring, apparently in two studies divided by a vertical line, with figures in a small sailing boat at the bottom left in what may be a further separate note.
For more on studies in this sketchbook relating to the regatta events at Cowes from late July 1827 onwards, see the Introduction.

Matthew Imms
November 2015

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