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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Scotland 1834 > Edinburgh Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Boats, with Figures 1834

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Boats, with Figures’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 68 Verso:
Boats, with Figures 1834
D26225
Turner Bequest CCLXVIII 68a
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 181 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains studies of figures in barges. While there are various other studies of vessels at sea in this book with which this sketch may be associated (folios 20, 61 verso and 68 verso; D26132, D26214, D26225), it is also possible that this sketch may have been made on the Thames, as there are studies of London Bridge from the water on folio 63 (D26217) that includes similar vessels and figures.
There are some brown marks at the top right of the page.

Thomas Ardill
January 2011

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Boats, with Figures 1834 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 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-boats-with-figures-r1136153, accessed 14 May 2024.