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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Hoy with Sail Set c.1800-1

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Hoy with Sail Set’ c.1800-1
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 57 Verso:
A Hoy with Sail Set c.1800–1
D03709
Turner Bequest LXI 55a
Pencil and grey wash on coarse off-white wove paper, 206 x 131 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram below right of centre
Stamped in black ‘LXI – 55a’ bottom right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Made with the pages turned horizontally, the drawing is continued on folio 58 recto opposite (D40782).
It is one of a group of studies of boats in this book; see under folio 56 verso (D03707; Turner Bequest LXI 54a). They may have been used for reference when Turner was evolving his Thames Estuary subjects in the first decade of the nineteenth century.
Technical notes:
The leaf is discoloured from exposure. In 1909 Finberg noted a ‘Leaf cut out’ following the present page, cross-referring to ‘p. 61’,1 meaning the leaf bearing the other half of the study, since restored to its correct position.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
See Finberg 1909, I, p.163.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Hoy with Sail Set c.1800–1 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-hoy-with-sail-set-r1178095, accessed 22 May 2025.