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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Kent Coast and Whaling c.1844-5 > Hythe and Walmer Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Boats and Ships, with a Windmill on Shore 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Boats and Ships, with a Windmill on Shore’ 1845
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 1 Verso:
Boats and Ships, with a Windmill on Shore 1845
D35335
Turner Bequest CCCLV 1
Pencil on white laid paper laid on grey card, 170 x 70 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘1’ bottom left
Stamped in black ‘CCCLV–1’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
There are small, slight sketches of various boats and ships, one of which includes figures. These are similar to layout to the sketches of yachts and ships in Turner’s Windsor and Cowes, Isle of Wight sketchbook (Turner Bequest CCXXVI) of around 1827 (Tate D20596, D20691–D20692; Turner Bequest CCXXVI 1, 59a, 60). There is a sketch of a windmill situated on a shoreline. At the foot of the page is a separate sketch of a ship, drawn with the page turned horizontally.
Technical notes:
There is localised smudging around the drawings and at the periphery of the page, where the pencil lead seems to have migrated and smudged over time.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Boats and Ships, with a Windmill on Shore 1845 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, June 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-boats-and-ships-with-a-windmill-on-shore-r1142166, accessed 25 April 2024.