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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Beached Boats with Vessels at Sea Beyond c.1799-1802

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Beached Boats with Vessels at Sea Beyond’ c.1799-1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 92 Recto:
Beached Boats with Vessels at Sea Beyond c.1799–1802
D04107
Turner Bequest LXIX 93
Ink, wash and white chalk on blue laid paper, 135 x 210 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘93’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘LXIX-93’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the page turned horizontally, this is one of a series of sketches depicting a flat calm; see under folio 93 recto (D04108; Turner Bequest LXIX 94).
Technical notes:
The ‘white chalk’ included in Finberg’s description of this drawing1 has now almost entirely disappeared.
1
See Finberg 1909, I, p.173.
Verso:
Blank; inscribed in pencil ‘770’.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Beached Boats with Vessels at Sea Beyond 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-beached-boats-with-vessels-at-sea-beyond-r1177985, accessed 23 April 2024.