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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Three Sketches of Fish 1821

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three Sketches of Fish’ 1821
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 31 Recto:
Three Sketches of Fish 1821
D18572
Turner Bequest CCXI 31
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Fish. Thornback. Red Mullet. Dory. Dog Fish. Some spotted and Large. Turbot Brill | Bass Sea Eel not the Devon Conger | Large Smelt. Epernais Hering’ top
Stamped in black ‘CCXI – 31’ top left inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted are three small sketches of fish with an inscription listing different types of fish (see inscription).

Thomas Ardill
March 2013

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Three Sketches of Fish 1821 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-three-sketches-of-fish-r1146266, accessed 18 September 2024.