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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Figures in a Boat; Addresses &c (Inscriptions by Turner) c.1815-17

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Figures in a Boat; Addresses &c (Inscriptions by Turner)’ c.1815-17
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 34 Verso:
Figures in a Boat; Addresses &c (Inscriptions by Turner) circa 1815–17
D10644
Turner Bequest CXLI 34a
Pencil on white wove paper, 88 x 114 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Stedman 40 Gt James St. Bedford Square | Lord Strathmore. Solicitors’ inside left margin, running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted.
John Bowes, 10th Earl of Strathmore (1769–1820) tops a list of clients written on folio 35 verso of the sketchbook (D10646). He acquired two watercolours of Gibside, County Durham, the Seat of the Earl of Strathmore (Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle)1 painted there in autumn 1817 when Turner visited the estate with his patron, after his stay at Raby Castle; see notes by Matthew Imms to the Raby sketchbook (Tate D12262–D12317; D40723–D40726; D40764; D41517; Turner Bequest CLVI). The watercolours were engraved for Robert Surtees’s History of Durham.

David Blayney Brown
July 2011

1
Andrew Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg 1979, p.364 both listed under no.557.

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Figures in a Boat; Addresses &c (Inscriptions by Turner) c.1815–17 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2011, 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-figures-in-a-boat-addresses-c-inscriptions-by-turner-r1131697, accessed 27 April 2024.