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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Shore Scene, with a Figure looking out to Sea; a Boat pulled up on the Beach, and a Ship on the Horizon 1796-7

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 37 Verso:
Shore Scene, with a Figure looking out to Sea; a Boat pulled up on the Beach, and a Ship on the Horizon 1796–7
D01193
Turner Bequest XXXVII 76
Pencil and white chalk on blue laid wrapping paper prepared with a red-brown wash, 113 x 93 mm
Stamped in black ‘XXXVII – 76’ top right, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a very slight one-page sketch, inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation; see the entry for folio 38 recto opposite (Tate D01194; Turner Bequest XXXVII 77).

Andrew Wilton
September 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Shore Scene, with a Figure looking out to Sea; a Boat pulled up on the Beach, and a Ship on the Horizon 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-shore-scene-with-a-figure-looking-out-to-sea-a-boat-pulled-r1149883, accessed 28 March 2024.