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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

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

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 84 Recto:
Cowes, with East Cowes Castle Beyond; Yachts Sailing 1827
D20729
Turner Bequest CCXXVI 80
Pencil on white wove paper, 192 x 112 mm
Stamped in black ‘CCXXVI – 80’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The three drawings here were made with the page turned vertically. The upper two were made on the wooded shore in the vicinity of Cowes Castle (see under folio 72 verso; D20708; Turner Bequest CCXXVI 69a), with East Cowes Castle (see under folio 1 verso; D20597) on the skyline south-east across the mouth of the River Medina in the upper one, and probably again in the second. These rapid sketches, separated by horizontal pencil lines, catch groups embarking or disembarking from rowing boats.
The bottom sketch is rather more delicate, and shows yachts passing moored boats. 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, ‘Cowes, with East Cowes Castle Beyond; Yachts Sailing 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-cowes-with-east-cowes-castle-beyond-yachts-sailing-r1183373, accessed 19 September 2024.