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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Fishing Boats at Dieppe 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Fishing Boats at Dieppe’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 231 Verso:
Two Fishing Boats at Dieppe 1824
D19991
Turner Bequest CCXVI 224 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Watermark ‘[smith &] allnut | [18]22’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has studied two fishing boats in detail; their rigging and masts are continued onto the folio opposite (Tate D19992; Turner Bequest CCXVI 225). The vessels were most likely sketched at the port of Dieppe.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Two Fishing Boats at Dieppe 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-two-fishing-boats-at-dieppe-r1174786, accessed 25 April 2024.