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

There are five sketches on this page. At the top is a low spit or headland; there are two further coastal profiles, one with what may be a harbour, and the other with what seem to be distant buildings. The subjects are unidentified, but are likely to be on or near the Isle of Wight. Towards the top a considerable number of warships are shown moored, perhaps at Spithead, off Portsmouth; this sketch continues on folio 34 recto opposite (D18054). At the bottom right yachts are seen manoeuvring and apparently racing, probably in relation to those seen on the opposite page. For more on studies in this sketchbook relating to the regatta events at Cowes from late July 1827 onwards, see the sketchbook Introduction.