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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sailing Boats on a River or Estuary, with a Sunset Sky 1796-7

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sailing Boats on a River or Estuary, with a Sunset Sky’ 1796-7
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 44 Verso:
Sailing Boats on a River or Estuary, with a Sunset Sky 1796–7
D01207
Turner Bequest XXXVII 90
Gouache on blue laid wrapping paper prepared with a red-brown wash, 113 x 93 mm
Stamped in black ‘XXXVII – 90’ top right, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, the composition continues across folio 45 recto opposite (D01208; Turner Bequest XXXVII 91), and is presumably a view near the mouth of Thames.

Andrew Wilton
September 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Sailing Boats on a River or Estuary, with a Sunset Sky 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-sailing-boats-on-a-river-or-estuary-with-a-sunset-sky-r1149897, accessed 24 September 2024.