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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sailing Boats on the Rhine 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sailing Boats on the Rhine’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 63 Recto:
Sailing Boats on the Rhine 1839
D28475
Turner Bequest CCXC 63
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 100 x 163 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘63’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXC–63’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has made a number of quick sketches of the sailing boats he encountered on his travels down the Rhine.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Sailing Boats on the Rhine 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2013, 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-the-rhine-r1150758, accessed 19 September 2024.