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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Small Sailing Boat c.1799-1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Small Sailing Boat’ c.1799-1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 38 Verso:
A Small Sailing Boat c.1799–1802
D04039
Turner Bequest LXIX 38a
Pencil on blue laid paper, 135 x 210 mm
Watermark: Strasburg lily (trimmed)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Made with the pages turned horizontally, this extremely slight study is continued on folio 39 recto opposite (D04040).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Small Sailing Boat c.1799–1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-small-sailing-boat-r1177917, accessed 19 September 2024.