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

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

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Study for 'Ships Bearing up for Anchorage ("The Egremont Seapiece")'’ c.1799-1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 37 Verso:
Study for ‘Ships Bearing up for Anchorage (“The Egremont Seapiece”)’ c.1799–1802
D04974
Turner Bequest LXXXI 72
Black and white chalks and ink on blue laid paper, 436 x 271 mm
Watermarks ‘1794’ and ‘VI’
Inscribed by Turner in ink ‘Ld Egremonts Picture’ centre left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘LXXXI–72’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject is continued on folio 38 recto opposite (D04975; Turner Bequest LXXXI 73). Ships Bearing up for Anchorage (‘The Egremont Seapiece’) was shown at the Royal Academy in 1802 (Tate T03868, displayed at Petworth House, West Sussex);1 there are other studies for it on folios 33 verso–34 recto and 34 verso–35 recto (D04966–D04969; Turner Bequest LXXXI 64–65, 66–67). This is the most elaborate of the series, but it only partly indicates the complete design, omitting several of the most prominent ships.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
Butlin and Joll 1984, p.17 no.18, pl.14 (colour).

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-r1178178, accessed 19 April 2024.