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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > History Painting c.1799-1807 > Calais Pier Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Fishing Boats with Sails Set c.1802

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Fishing Boats with Sails Set’ c.1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 76 Verso:
Fishing Boats with Sails Set c.1802
D05052
Turner Bequest LXXXI 150
Pen and brown ink on blue laid paper, 271 x 436 mm
Watermarks ‘1794’ and Strasburg lily
Stamped in black ‘LXXXI–150’ bottom right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the pages turned horizontally, the studies continue on folio 77 recto opposite (D05053; Turner Bequest LXXXI 151). Spirited studies of sailing boats in this vein occur on folios 73 verso, 74 verso and 75 verso (D05046, D05048, D05050; Turner Bequest LXXXI 144, 146, 148). Those on D05048 and D05053 are related to the painting Calais Pier, with French Poissards Preparing for Sea: An English Packet Arriving, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1803 (National Gallery, London).1

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, pp.37–8 no.48, pl.58 (colour).

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Fishing Boats with Sails Set 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-with-sails-set-r1178256, accessed 25 April 2024.