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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sailing Boats at Sea, with the Sun among Clouds 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sailing Boats at Sea, with the Sun among Clouds’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 1 Recto:
Sailing Boats at Sea, with the Sun among Clouds 1801
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Turner Bequest LIII 1
Pencil on bluish–white laid paper, 112 x 162 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘B’ centre left and ‘B’ towards top right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘1’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘LIII – 1’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This study was made with the page turned horizontally.
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Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Sailing Boats at Sea, with the Sun among Clouds 1801 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-sailing-boats-at-sea-with-the-sun-among-clouds-r1178484, accessed 26 April 2024.