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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Thames sketchbooks c.1804-14 > Windsor and Eton Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Sailing Barges c.1806-8

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sailing Barges’ c.1806-8 (Inside front cover of sketchbook)
Inside front cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inside Front Cover:
Sailing Barges circa 1806–8
D40656
Turner Bequest
Pencil on white wove paper, 107 x 182 mm
Inscribed by the Executors of the Turner bequest in ink and pencil (see Introduction)
Stamped in black ‘XCVII’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These sketches of barges with two or three masts are among a number of similar ones in this sketchbook; see chiefly folio 23 (D06094). Some further marks may foliage continued from folio 1 (D06072).

David Blayney Brown
September 2008

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Sailing Barges c.1806–8 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2008, 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-sailing-barges-r1130251, accessed 24 April 2024.