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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Study of a Sailing Ship and a Rowing Boat at a Wharf 1798

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Study of a Sailing Ship and a Rowing Boat at a Wharf’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 5 Recto:
Study of a Sailing Ship and a Rowing Boat at a Wharf 1798
D01684
Turner Bequest XLII 9
Pencil and pen and ink on buff laid paper, 174 x 125 mm
Watermark ‘5’ (indistinct)
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘9’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XLII – 9’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The combination of pencil with pen and ink is similar to that used in the drawing on folios 13 verso–14 recto (D01701–D01702; Turner Bequest XLII 26–27), where the truncated spire of St Mary Redcliffe Church identifies the scene as Bristol Harbour.

Andrew Wilton
March 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Study of a Sailing Ship and a Rowing Boat at a Wharf 1798 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-study-of-a-sailing-ship-and-a-rowing-boat-at-a-wharf-r1173880, accessed 10 May 2024.