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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Erotica and Improvisations c.1834-6 > Fishing at the Weir Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Fishermen or a Fish Market on a Beach c.1834-6

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Fishermen or a Fish Market on a Beach’ c.1834-6
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 29 Verso:
?Fishermen or a Fish Market on a Beach c.1834–6
D27778
Turner Bequest CCLXXXI 29
Pencil on white wove paper, 79 x 101 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this sketch shows a crowd gathered around an array of items on the ground. There are various studies of fishermen, fish markets and coastal views in the sketchbook, particularly on adjacent pages at this end, as set out in the Introduction, and in that context this study suggests a fish market on a beach with cliffs beyond; compare folios 10 verso and 31 verso (D27743, D27783).
The blank recto is numbered by John Ruskin in red ink ‘29’ and stamped ‘CCLXXXI – 29’.

Matthew Imms
April 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘?Fishermen or a Fish Market on a Beach c.1834–6 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-fishermen-or-a-fish-market-on-a-beach-r1149139, accessed 23 September 2024.