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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Thames sketchbooks c.1804-14 > River and Margate Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Mast and Sail c.1805-9

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Mast and Sail’ c.1805-9
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 86 Recto:
?Mast and Sail circa 1805–9
D06503
Turner Bequest XCIX 82
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 115 x 190 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink and by an unidentified hand in pencil‘81’ bottom left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘XCIX 82’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted, this is a very slight and faint sketch. Rather than Finberg’s ‘ship’, it perhaps represents the mast and sail of a barge or lugger.

David Blayney Brown
March 2009

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘?Mast and Sail c.1805–9 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2009, 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-mast-and-sail-r1130699, accessed 25 April 2024.