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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > History Painting c.1799-1807 > Studies for Pictures Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Shipping at Sea, with a Small Boat in the Foreground c.1799-1802

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Shipping at Sea, with a Small Boat in the Foreground’ c.1799-1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 117 Recto:
Shipping at Sea, with a Small Boat in the Foreground c.1799–1802
D04135
Turner Bequest LXIX 118
Ink, wash and gouache on blue laid paper, 135 x 210 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘118’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘LXIX-118’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This study was made with the page turned horizontally. Jerrold Ziff suggests that it is related to the gestation of the Ships Bearing Up for Anchorage (‘The Egremont Seapiece’) of 1802 (Tate T03868, on display at Petworth House, Sussex).1
1
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, p.17 no.18, pl.14 (colour); see Ziff 1980, p.168.
Technical notes:
The sheet is discoloured from prolonged exposure.
Verso:
Blank; inscribed by Ruskin in red ink ‘[?80]’ (obliterated).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Shipping at Sea, with a Small Boat in the Foreground 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-shipping-at-sea-with-a-small-boat-in-the-foreground-r1178015, accessed 26 April 2024.