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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Skiddaw from the South of Derwentwater Continued; and Sketches of Boats 1831

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Skiddaw from the South of Derwentwater Continued; and Sketches of Boats’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 21 Recto:
Skiddaw from the South of Derwentwater Continued; and Sketches of Boats 1831
D25801
Turner Bequest CCLXVI 21
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 187 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by John Ruskin ‘21’ top right and ‘342’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXVI 21’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Continued from folio 20 verso (D25800) at the left of the page is a sketch of the mountain of Skiddaw as seen from the southern end of Derwentwater to the south. At the bottom of the page are three rather diagrammatic sketches of parts of a boat, with the hull shown from an oblique angle and from the side, and a study of a gaff-rigged sail. This boat may have been seen on Derwentwater, or Turner could have just utilised the blank space on this page at another stage of his travels.

Thomas Ardill
May 2010

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Skiddaw from the South of Derwentwater Continued; and Sketches of Boats 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2010, 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-skiddaw-from-the-south-of-derwentwater-continued-and-r1134168, accessed 03 October 2025.