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

These four drawings were made with the page turned vertically, the one nearest the gutter being inverted relative to the others. They all show yachts under sail, and perhaps racing in the top view. The third includes the profile of what is probably the headland at East Cowes, seen to the east across the mouth of the River Medina. For more on studies in this sketchbook relating to the regatta events at Cowes from late July 1827 onwards, see the Introduction.