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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Boats and Sky at ?Ghent or Bruges 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Boats and Sky at ?Ghent or Bruges’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 173 Recto:
Boats and Sky at ?Ghent or Bruges 1824
D19885
Turner Bequest CCXVI 167
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Blue’ centre left
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘167’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–167’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner has used this leaf to dash off a few jottings of boats as well as a small study of clouds. Similar sketches are found on the folio opposite (Tate D19884, D19886; Turner Bequest CCXVI 166a, 167a). The location may be the Flemish cities of Bruges or Ghent.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Boats and Sky at ?Ghent or Bruges 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2014, 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-boats-and-sky-at-ghent-or-bruges-r1174680, accessed 20 September 2024.