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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Boats on a River ?between Bruges and Ostend 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Boats on a River ?between Bruges and Ostend’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 178 Verso:
Boats on a River ?between Bruges and Ostend 1824
D19896
Turner Bequest CCXVI 172 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has rendered a quick record of some boats on a river with an expansive and cloudy sky above. His handling is free and cursory. The sketch may have been executed en route to Ostend from Bruges (see Tate D19893–D19895, D19896; Turner Bequest CCXVI 171–172, 172a).

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Boats on a River ?between Bruges and Ostend 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-on-a-river-between-bruges-and-ostend-r1174691, accessed 23 September 2024.