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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Yachts off Cowes, with East Cowes Castle Beyond 1827

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Yachts off Cowes, with East Cowes Castle Beyond’ 1827
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 74 Verso:
Yachts off Cowes, with East Cowes Castle Beyond 1827
D20712
Turner Bequest CCXXVI 71a
Pencil on white wove paper, 112 x 192 mm
Partial watermark ‘R Bar | 18’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These rapid studies in three bands are inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation. They show moored sailing boats and yachts under way at the mouth of the River Medina of Cowes, with East Cowes Castle (see under folio 1 verso; D20597) lightly indicated on the horizon to the south-east in the upper view. 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, ‘Yachts off Cowes, with East Cowes Castle Beyond 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-yachts-off-cowes-with-east-cowes-castle-beyond-r1183354, accessed 26 April 2024.