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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Dumbarton: Beached Boats with the Rock in the Background 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Dumbarton: Beached Boats with the Rock in the Background’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 185 Recto:
Dumbarton: Beached Boats with the Rock in the Background 1801
D03272
Turner Bequest LVI 183
Pencil on white wove paper, 184 x 114 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Dumbarton’ top left, upside down
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘183’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘LVI – 183’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a continuation of the drawing on folio 184 verso opposite (D03271; Turner Bequest LVI 182a), under which the subject is discussed.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Dumbarton: Beached Boats with the Rock in the Background 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-dumbarton-beached-boats-with-the-rock-in-the-background-r1179468, accessed 18 April 2024.