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 > Greenwich Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Three Sailing Barges c.1808

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three Sailing Barges’ c.1808
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 43 Verso:
Three Sailing Barges circa 1808
D06805
Turner Bequest CII 43a
Pencil on white wove paper, 76 x 115 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘straw Hops’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted.

David Blayney Brown
March 2007

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Three Sailing Barges c.1808 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2007, 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-three-sailing-barges-r1130898, accessed 25 April 2024.