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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Scotland 1818-20 > Scotch Antiquities Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Fishing Boats on the Shore and the Bass Rock 1818

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Fishing Boats on the Shore and the Bass Rock’ 1818
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 31 Verso:
Fishing Boats on the Shore and the Bass Rock 1818
D13635
Turner Bequest CLXVII 30a
Pencil on white wove paper, 112 x 186 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The sketch from folio 32 (D13636; CLXVII 31) continues very slightly at the left of this page. At the top left of the page is a pink smudge transferred from Ruskin’s red ink numbering on the opposite page.

Thomas Ardill
March 2008

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Fishing Boats on the Shore and the Bass Rock 1818 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 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-fishing-boats-on-the-shore-and-the-bass-rock-r1132183, accessed 25 July 2025.