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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Fishing Boats c.1802

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 75 Verso:
Fishing Boats c.1802
D05050
Turner Bequest LXXXI 148
Ink on blue laid paper, 271 x 436 mm
Watermarks ‘1794’ and Strasburg lily
Stamped in black ‘LXXXI–148’ bottom right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Made with the page turned horizontally, these lively pen studies form part of a sequence of similar drawings; others are on folios 74 verso and 77 recto (D05048, D05053; Turner Bequest LXXXI 146, 151).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Fishing Boats c.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-r1178254, accessed 29 March 2024.