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

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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Hoy with Sail Set’ c.1800-1
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 58 Recto:
A Hoy with Sail Set c.1800–1
D40782
Pencil and grey wash on coarse off-white wove paper, 131 x 206 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom left
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘216’ top right, upside down
Stamped in black ‘LXI – 61’ top right, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Made with the pages turned horizontally, this is a continuation of the drawing on folio 57 verso opposite (D03709; Turner Bequest LXI 55a). It is not recorded separately in Finberg’s 1909 Inventory.1
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See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.164.
Technical notes:
The leaf is discoloured from the prolonged exposure of the verso (D03717; Turner Bequest LXI 61) when it was exhibited.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

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-r1178096, accessed 02 August 2025.