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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Shore with Figures, with Shipping at Sea Beyond c.1799-1805

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Shore with Figures, with Shipping at Sea Beyond’ c.1799-1805
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 44 Verso:
A Shore with Figures, with Shipping at Sea Beyond c.1799–1805
D04988
Turner Bequest LXXXI 86
Black and white chalks on blue laid paper, 436 x 271 mm
Watermarks ‘1794’ and Strasburg lily
Inscribed top left, along left edge in pen and black ink ‘Lee Shore unpainted 1805’
Stamped in black ‘LXXXI–86’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject is continued on folio 45 recto opposite (D04989; Turner Bequest LXXXI 87). Although apparently not used, this study seems to be connected with the painting A Coast Scene with Fishermen Hauling a Boat Ashore (‘The Iveagh Seapiece’) of about 1803–4 (English Heritage, Kenwood, London),1 where the sky is similarly laid out. It also includes the boat cresting a breaker that constitutes the principal subject of Fishermen upon a Lee–Shore, in Squally Weather, the canvas exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1802 (Southampton Art Gallery);2 see folios 43 verso–44 recto and 49 verso–50 recto (D04986–D04987, D04996–D04997; Turner Bequest LXXXI 84–85, 96–97).
1
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, p.109 no.144, pl.149 (colour).
2
Ibid., pp.15–16 no.16, pl.12 (colour).
Technical notes:
There is some offsetting from folio 45 recto opposite (D04989; Turner Bequest LXXXI 87).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Shore with Figures, with Shipping at Sea Beyond c.1799–1805 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-shore-with-figures-with-shipping-at-sea-beyond-r1178192, accessed 23 April 2024.