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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > First Italian Tour 1819-20 > Italian Guide Book Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Vessels and a Landscape with a Boat c.1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Vessels and a Landscape with a Boat’ c.1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 26 Recto:
Vessels and a Landscape with a Boat circa 1819
D13980
Turner Bequest CLXXII 26
Pencil on white wove paper, 155 x 99 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘26’ top left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CLXXII 26’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains two sketches. The drawing at the top is a study of sailing boat, whilst beneath this is an unidentified landscape with a house and a boat. Turner frequently sketched ships and boats which feature heavily in many of his paintings. The study may predate the artist’s use of the sketchbook as a notebook relating to his Italian travels in the autumn of 1819.

Nicola Moorby
July 2008

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Vessels and a Landscape with a Boat c.1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2008, 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-vessels-and-a-landscape-with-a-boat-r1138801, accessed 25 April 2024.