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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Ships and Boats Sailing; Study of a Cloudy Sky ?1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ships and Boats Sailing; Study of a Cloudy Sky’ ?1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 92 Verso:
Ships and Boats Sailing; Study of a Cloudy Sky ?1831
D22322
Turner Bequest CCXXXIX 91a
Pencil on white wove paper, 191 x 114 mm
Inscribed by Turner with figures and colour notes (see main catalogue entry)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned vertically, the upper half is occupied with studies of ships and boats at sea or in an estuary, possibly made as Turner returned from Scotland in 1831 (see the sketchbook’s Introduction), near Newcastle upon Tyne (see under folio 8 recto; D22163) or on the River Thames, as there are also views from Richmond Hill, west of London (see under folio 89 verso; D22316; Turner Bequest CCXXXIX 88a). There are further shipping studies inside the back cover opposite (D41055).
At the centre left are the following figures:
     2, 6
     2  6
     1
     2   
At the centre right appears:
      14
      18
On the study of clouds at the outer edge of the page, inverted relative to the shipping studies, there are colour notes: ‘Dun’, ‘Blue’, ‘Blue’ and ‘W’.

Matthew Imms
April 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Ships and Boats Sailing; Study of a Cloudy Sky ?1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-ships-and-boats-sailing-study-of-a-cloudy-sky-r1148970, accessed 16 April 2024.