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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Waves Breaking on the Shore 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Waves Breaking on the Shore’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 115 Verso:
Waves Breaking on the Shore 1801
D02808
Turner Bequest LIV 115a
Pencil and wash with scraping-out on white wove paper prepared with a mauve-pink ground, 115 x 164 mm
Inscribed by Ruskin in red ink ‘4’ bottom left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing is continued on folio 116 recto opposite (D02809). It is one of a series of studies of breaking waves between folios 109 recto and 116 verso (D02796–D02810); see also folio 3 verso (D02618) and the entry for D02809.
Technical notes:
Folios 109–116 (D02796–D02810) probably belonged originally between folios 33 and 34 (D02649, D02650); see the technical notes to the sketchbook’s Introduction.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Waves Breaking on the Shore 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-on-the-shore-r1178994, accessed 24 April 2024.