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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Four Sailors Washing an Upturned Boat 1796-7

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Four Sailors Washing an Upturned Boat’ 1796-7
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 56 Recto:
Four Sailors Washing an Upturned Boat 1796–7
D01230
Turner Bequest XXXVII 113
Pencil, watercolour and gouache on blue laid wrapping paper prepared with a red-brown wash, 113 x 93 mm
Stamped in black ‘XXXVII – 113’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The composition continues across folio 55 verso opposite (D01229; Turner Bequest XXXVII 112). It is one of a series of subjects presumably made at Margate; see under folio 52 verso (D01223; Turner Bequest XXXVII 106).

Andrew Wilton
September 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Four Sailors Washing an Upturned 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-four-sailors-washing-an-upturned-boat-r1149920, accessed 25 April 2024.