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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Switzerland 1802 > Small Calais Pier Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Waves, or Figures 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Waves, or Figures’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
First Flyleaf, Recto:
?Waves, or Figures 1802
D04190
Pencil on white laid paper, 112 x 187 mm
Stamped in black ‘LXXI’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg lists this as the second flyleaf, but it is now bound as the first. The white paper was not treated with any preparatory wash. The very perfunctory pencil marks here are difficult to make out. Finberg’s identification as waves does not seem certain and they could possibly represent figures in a boat, on shore or on a pier.
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David Blayney Brown
April 2003

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘?Waves, or Figures 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2003, 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-waves-or-figures-r1133744, accessed 11 May 2024.