J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Distant Landscape and Sketch of ?Shipbuilding c.1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Distant Landscape and Sketch of ?Shipbuilding’ c.1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 29 Recto:
A Distant Landscape and Sketch of ?Shipbuilding circa 1819
D13986
Turner Bequest CLXXII 29
Pencil on white wove paper, 99 x 155 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘29’ top right, ascending right hand edge
Stamped in black ‘CLXXII 29’, ascending right hand edge
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The sketches at the top of this page may show shipbuilding in progress with the hulk of a boat surrounded by a framework of vertical struts. Beneath this is a faint drawing of a distant landscape. It is not known whether the subject relates to Turner’s 1819 Italian tour or predates it.

Nicola Moorby
July 2008

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘A Distant Landscape and Sketch of ?Shipbuilding c.1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2008, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-distant-landscape-and-sketch-of-shipbuilding-r1138807, accessed 18 May 2025.