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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sketches of Figures, or Possibly Sailing Boats c.1827

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sketches of Figures, or Possibly Sailing Boats’ c.1827 (Inside back cover of sketchbook)
Inside back cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inside Back Cover:
Sketches of Figures, or Possibly Sailing Boats c.1827
D41006
Pencil on white wove paper, 110 x 185 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These two bands of extremely quick and calligraphic sketches may represent ‘figures’, as Finberg thought,1 or possibly sailing boats (compare folio 37 verso; D20788; Turner Bequest CCXXVII 35a).
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Finberg 1909, II, p.698.
Technical notes:
The legibility of the pencil work is impeded by prolonged rubbing between this paste-down and folio 44 verso opposite (D20802; Turner Bequest CCXXVII 42a).

Matthew Imms
November 2015

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Sketches of Figures, or Possibly Sailing Boats c.1827 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, November 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-sketches-of-figures-or-possibly-sailing-boats-r1182663, accessed 25 April 2024.