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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Boats and Figures, Perhaps at Cowes; Yachts under Sail; a Yacht in the Solent off Norris Castle 1827

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Boats and Figures, Perhaps at Cowes; Yachts under Sail; a Yacht in the Solent off Norris Castle’ 1827
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 46 Verso:
Boats and Figures, Perhaps at Cowes; Yachts under Sail; a Yacht in the Solent off Norris Castle 1827
D20668
Turner Bequest CCXXVI 44a
Pencil on white wove paper, 192 x 112 mm
Partial watermark ‘nard | 20’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The three drawings were made with the page turned vertically. The upper sketch seems to be a shore scene, with boats moored and sailing beyond and perhaps a rowing boat with figures in the foreground, as well as slight indications of buildings; the setting may be Cowes. In the middle a group of yachts is shown under way from astern, while the bottom view is south from the Solent to Norris Castle, near East Cowes (see under folio 40 recto; D20658; Turner Bequest CCXXVI 38); see also folio 47 recto opposite (D20669; Turner Bequest CCXXVI 45).
For more on studies in this sketchbook relating to the regatta events at Cowes from late July 1827 onwards, see the Introduction.

Matthew Imms
November 2015

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Boats and Figures, Perhaps at Cowes; Yachts under Sail; a Yacht in the Solent off Norris Castle 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-boats-and-figures-perhaps-at-cowes-yachts-under-sail-a-yacht-r1183309, accessed 24 April 2024.