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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Fishing Boat Putting out to Sea 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Fishing Boat Putting out to Sea’ 1801 (Inside back cover of sketchbook)
Inside back cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inside Back Cover:
A Fishing Boat Putting out to Sea 1801
D05158
Turner Bequest LXXXII 77
Pencil and ink on white laid paper, 161 x 256 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘[?Profits have appeard to be fall of late | [?far on enter] to the sale of others | in [?abt]’ at left, ascending vertically
Blind–stamped with Turner Bequest monogram right of centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘77’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘LXXXII – 77’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Like this sketches on folios 75 verso, 76 recto and 77 verso (D05154–D05156; Turner Bequest LXXXII 75a, 76, 76a), this slight sketch appears to be related to the painting Fishermen upon a Lee–Shore, in Squally Weather, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1802 (Southampton Art Gallery).1 The unclear pencil inscription may be part of the draft letter or speech noted inside the front cover (D40695).
1
Butlin and Joll 1984, pp.15–16 no.16, pl.12 (colour).
Technical notes:
There are brown ink trials at the top right.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Fishing Boat Putting out to Sea 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-a-fishing-boat-putting-out-to-sea-r1178727, accessed 25 April 2024.