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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > Brighton and Copies from Wilson 1796-7 > Wilson Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Fishing Boats in a Choppy Sea 1796-7

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Fishing Boats in a Choppy Sea’ 1796-7
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 52 Verso:
Fishing Boats in a Choppy Sea 1796–7
D01223
Turner Bequest XXXVII 106
Pencil, watercolour and gouache on blue laid wrapping paper prepared with a red-brown wash, 113 x 93 mm
Stamped in black ‘XXXVII – 106’ 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 53 recto opposite (D01224; Turner Bequest XXXVII 107). This and the following studies on folios 53 verso–56 verso (D01225–D01231; Turner Bequest XXXVII 108–114) were all presumably made at Margate. They are similar in approach and technique to the contemporary series of loose sheets showing fishing and other vessels, addressed in a separate subgroup of the present section of this catalogue.

Andrew Wilton
September 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Fishing Boats in a Choppy Sea 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-fishing-boats-in-a-choppy-sea-r1149913, accessed 26 April 2024.