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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Study of the Inside of a Small Boat: Bow, Thwart and Ribs 1796

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Study of the Inside of a Small Boat: Bow, Thwart and Ribs’ 1796
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 95 Verso:
Study of the Inside of a Small Boat: Bow, Thwart and Ribs 1796
D00840
Turner Bequest XXX 95
Pencil, watercolour and gouache on blue laid paper, 126 x 108 mm
Stamped in black ‘XXX – 95’ top left, descending vertically
This study was made with the page turned vertically. Compare folio 94 verso (D00841; Turner Bequest XXX 96), which show the stern of the same boat.
Finberg appears to have recorded this subject as the recto; see the Technical notes to the sketchbook’s Introduction. The blank recto as now bound is inscribed in pencil ‘XXX 95’ and stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram below ‘XXX – 95’.
Technical notes:
Except at the edges, the page is faded from exposure when it was exhibited.

Andrew Wilton
May 2011

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Study of the Inside of a Small Boat: Bow, Thwart and Ribs 1796 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-study-of-the-inside-of-a-small-boat-bow-thwart-and-ribs-r1149789, accessed 24 April 2024.