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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Fully-Rigged Ships in Full Sail ?1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Fully-Rigged Ships in Full Sail’ ?1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 40 Verso:
Fully-Rigged Ships in Full Sail ?1832
D23596
Turner Bequest CCLII 40a
Pencil on white wove paper, 187 x 114 mm
Partial watermark ‘J. JELL | 18’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘c’ centre left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned vertically, Turner recorded a fully-rigged ship in full sail from different angles on this page. All three drawings show the vessel at starboard, with the top sketch depicting the bow and the central sketch revealing the stern side. Such ships abounded in the English Channel and on the long navigable stretch of the Seine, both much studied in the volume as outlined in the Introduction to this sketchbook.

John Chu
April 2014

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Fully-Rigged Ships in Full Sail ?1832 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 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-fully-rigged-ships-in-full-sail-r1175088, accessed 26 April 2024.