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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Sailing Boat with a Dinghy and Men Furling a Sail on the Bowsprit 1796

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Sailing Boat with a Dinghy and Men Furling a Sail on the Bowsprit’ 1796
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 49 Verso:
A Sailing Boat with a Dinghy and Men Furling a Sail on the Bowsprit 1796
D00784
Turner Bequest XXX 48a
Pencil on white wove paper, 108 x 126 mm
Stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram top right
The drawing is inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation.

Andrew Wilton
May 2011

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Sailing Boat with a Dinghy and Men Furling a Sail on the Bowsprit 1796 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-sailing-boat-with-a-dinghy-and-men-furling-a-sail-on-the-r1149734, accessed 05 April 2026.