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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Sailing Vessel on a calm Sea: Moonlight 1796-7

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Sailing Vessel on a calm Sea: Moonlight’ 1796-7
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 33 Recto:
A Sailing Vessel on a calm Sea: Moonlight 1796–7
D01184
Turner Bequest XXXVII 67
Pencil with black and white chalks and grey wash on blue laid wrapping paper prepared with a red-brown wash, 113 x 93 mm
Stamped in black ‘XXXVII – 67’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The composition continues across folio 32 verso opposite (D01183; Turner Bequest XXXVII 66).

Andrew Wilton
September 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Sailing Vessel on a calm Sea: Moonlight 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-vessel-on-a-calm-sea-moonlight-r1149874, accessed 21 September 2024.