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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Sailing Boat 1796-7

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Sailing Boat’ 1796-7
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 6 Recto:
A Sailing Boat 1796–7
D01128
Turner Bequest XXXVII 11
Pencil and white chalk, and pen and brown ink on blue laid wrapping paper prepared with a red-brown wash, 93 x 113 mm
Stamped in black ‘XXXVII – 11’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a rather slight sketch, made with the page turned horizontally. The pen line is a continuation of the large rock in the drawing on folio 5 verso opposite (D01127; Turner Bequest XXXVII 10).

Andrew Wilton
September 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Sailing Boat 1796–7 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2012, 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-a-sailing-boat-r1149820, accessed 25 April 2024.