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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Boats ?on the Normandy Coast 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Boats ?on the Normandy Coast’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 215 Recto:
Boats ?on the Normandy Coast 1824
D19964
Turner Bequest CCXVI 208
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Watermark ‘smith & [allnut] | 18[22]’
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘208’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–208’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has made two detailed studies of fishing boats located on the Normandy coast, most probably at or near the port of Dieppe. The masts and rigging of the larger of the two boats is continued on Tate D19965; Turner Bequest CCXVI 209.
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Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Boats ?on the Normandy Coast 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-the-normandy-coast-r1174759, accessed 24 September 2024.