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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Marine subjects c.1803-14 > Spithead Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Ships 1807

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Ships’ 1807
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 25 Verso:
?Ships 1807
D40607
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 118 x 187 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Hardly visible, and not noticed or described by Finberg, these faint pancil marks extend the sketch of men-of-war on folio 26 (D06544; Turner Bequest C 25).

David Blayney Brown
May 2006

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘?Ships 1807 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2006, 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-ships-r1139066, accessed 14 December 2025.