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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Switzerland 1802 > Small Calais Pier Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Fishing Smack off Dover 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Fishing Smack off Dover’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 20 Recto:
A Fishing Smack off Dover 1802
D04268
Turner Bequest LXXI 66
Pen and brown ink and a little brown wash on wove paper prepared with reddish brown wash, 112 x 187 mm
Stamped in black ‘LXXI 66’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Numbered by Finberg as folio 66 of this sketchbook, this has since been rebound as folio 20. Dover Castle is clearly visible. Turner must have sketched it and the cliffs of the British shore as he sailed away to France.
Verso:
Slight brown ink offset of a rowing boat from the sketch Ships in a Breeze from folio 21 of this sketchbook (D04274). Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘868’

David Blayney Brown
April 2003

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘A Fishing Smack off Dover 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-a-fishing-smack-off-dover-r1133766, accessed 23 April 2024.