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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Study for 'Ships Bearing up for Anchorage ("The Egremont Seapiece")' c.1799-1802

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 35 Recto:
Study for ‘Ships Bearing up for Anchorage (“The Egremont Seapiece”)’ c.1799–1802
D04969
Turner Bequest LXXXI 67
Black and white chalks on blue laid paper, 436 x 271 mm
Watermarks ‘1794’ and Strasburg lily
Stamped in black ‘LXXXI–67’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a continuation of the drawing on folio 34 verso opposite (D04968; Turner Bequest LXXXI 66), under which the subject is discussed.
Technical notes:
The page is oil–stained in places.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Study for ‘Ships Bearing up for Anchorage (“The Egremont Seapiece”)’ 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-study-for-ships-bearing-up-for-anchorage-the-egremont-r1178173, accessed 29 March 2024.