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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant Coastline (in Two Instalments); Sailing Boat and Buoys 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant Coastline (in Two Instalments); Sailing Boat and Buoys’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 48 Recto
Distant Coastline (in Two Instalments); Sailing Boat and Buoys 1835
D31114
Turner Bequest CCCVII 48
Pencil on cream laid paper, 162 x 89 mm
Watermark ‘cfw & s’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Morning [or Mooring] in the B’ centre towards top right (inverted relative to foliation); ‘Greifswalder[...]’ centre left towards top left (inverted relative to foliation)
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘48’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCVII–48’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned upside down, Turner has recorded a sailing boat with buoys (inscribed ‘Morning [or Mooring] on the B[altic]’). With the sketchbook turned horizontally he has rendered a distant headland in two instalments, inscribed ‘Greifswalder[...]’ which refers to the town of Greifswald on the Baltic.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Distant Coastline (in Two Instalments); Sailing Boat and Buoys 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-distant-coastline-in-two-instalments-sailing-boat-and-buoys-r1186989, accessed 05 May 2025.