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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Large Ship Lying on her Side, with a Small Sailing Boat c.1799-1805

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Large Ship Lying on her Side, with a Small Sailing Boat’ c.1799-1805
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 71 Verso:
A Large Ship Lying on her Side, with a Small Sailing Boat c.1799–1805
D05042
Turner Bequest LXXXI 140
Black and white chalks on blue laid paper, 436 x 271 mm
Watermarks ‘1794’ and ‘VI’
Inscribed in pencil ‘140’ top right, upside down
Stamped in black ‘LXXXI–140’ top right, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, the subject is continued on folio 72 recto opposite (D05043; Turner Bequest LXXXI 141). This is a study for the painting The Shipwreck, shown in Turner’s own gallery in 1805 (Tate N00476),1 and worked out on a number of pages here; see under folio 1 verso (D04903; Turner Bequest LXXXI 2).
1
Butlin and Joll 1984, p.43 no.54, pl.64 (colour).
Technical notes:
Ink has bled through from the recto (D05041; Turner Bequest LXXXI 139).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Large Ship Lying on her Side, with a Small Sailing Boat 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-large-ship-lying-on-her-side-with-a-small-sailing-boat-r1178246, accessed 14 May 2024.