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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Study for Vignette of A Tempest - Voyage of Columbus 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Study for Vignette of A Tempest - Voyage of Columbus’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 30 Recto:
Study for Vignette of A Tempest – Voyage of Columbus 1831
D25695
Turner Bequest CCLXV 30
Pencil on white wove paper, 59 x 96 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ? ‘Robm[...] and I K[...] | Carry sh’
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘30’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXV 30’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This folio contains one of two very similar studies for Turner’s vignette illustrations of A Tempest – Voyage of Columbus 1831–2 (watercolour, Tate D27719; Turner Bequest CCLXXX 202). Above the design is an inscription in pencil which has not been deciphered, but does not seem to be a line from Rogers’s poem as one might expect. The other design is on the opposite page of this sketchbook, folio 29 verso (D25694); see that entry for further information.

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Study for Vignette of A Tempest – Voyage of Columbus 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 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-study-for-vignette-of-a-tempest-voyage-of-columbus-r1134059, accessed 24 April 2024.