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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Fishing Boat Sailing towards a Group of Boats c.1799-1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Fishing Boat Sailing towards a Group of Boats’ c.1799-1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 95 Recto:
A Fishing Boat Sailing towards a Group of Boats c.1799–1802
D04110
Turner Bequest LXIX 96
Ink on blue laid paper, 135 x 210 mm
Watermark: Strasburg lily (trimmed)
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘96’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘LXIX-96’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Made with the page turned horizontally, this sketch perhaps belongs with those on folios 7 recto (D04001), and 104 recto and 127 recto (D04120, D04145; Turner Bequest LXIX 105, 128). It may relate to the Dutch Boats in a Gale: Fishermen Endeavouring to Put their Fish on Board (‘The Bridgewater Seapiece’) of 1801 (private collection, on long loan to the National Gallery, London);1 there are slight connections also, perhaps, with Fishing Boats Entering Calais Harbour, of about 1803 (Frick Collection, New York).2
1
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, pp.12–13 no.14, pl.11 (colour).
2
Ibid., p.108 no.142, pl.147 (colour).
Verso:
Blank; inscribed in pencil ‘761’.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Fishing Boat Sailing towards a Group of Boats 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-fishing-boat-sailing-towards-a-group-of-boats-r1177988, accessed 20 September 2024.