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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Fishing Boats under Sail c.1799-1802

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Fishing Boats under Sail’ c.1799-1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 128 Verso:
Fishing Boats under Sail c.1799–1802
D04148
Turner Bequest LXIX 129a
Ink and gouache on blue laid paper, 135 x 210 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Made with the page turned horizontally, this is one of a group of sketches showing fishing boats in a tight group; see also folios 95 recto, 104 recto and 127 recto (D04110, D04120, D04145; Turner Bequest LXIX 96, 105, 128). Some of these seem related to the picture Turner exhibited in 1801 as Dutch Boats in a Gale: Fishermen Endeavouring to Put their Fish on Board (‘The Bridgewater Seapiece’) (private collection, on long loan to the National Gallery, London).1

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

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).

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Fishing Boats under Sail 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-fishing-boats-under-sail-r1178028, accessed 26 April 2024.