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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner Waves Breaking against Rocks, with Gulls Flying Above 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Waves Breaking against Rocks, with Gulls Flying Above’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 16 Verso:
Waves Breaking against Rocks, with Gulls Flying Above 1801
D02417
Turner Bequest LII 16a
Pencil and gouache on coarse blue laid paper, 143 x 111 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject is continued on folio 17 recto opposite (D02418).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Waves Breaking against Rocks, with Gulls Flying Above 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-waves-breaking-against-rocks-with-gulls-flying-above-r1178753, accessed 14 July 2026.