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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Boat; Foliage 1792-3

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Boat; Foliage’ 1792-3
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
A Boat; Foliage 1792–3
D41455
Pencil and watercolour on white wove paper, 161 x 232 mm
Stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram bottom left
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These studies, with a slight brush drawing in blue colour, are not mentioned in Finberg’s 1909 Turner Bequest catalogue;1 they were possibly made in connection with the drawing on the recto (D00392; Turner Bequest XXIII R).

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

1
See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.39.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Boat; Foliage 1792–3 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2012, 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-boat-foliage-r1141147, accessed 26 April 2024.