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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Yachts Racing; East Cowes: The Headland and Castle 1827

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Yachts Racing; East Cowes: The Headland and Castle’ 1827
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 21 Verso:
?Yachts Racing; East Cowes: The Headland and Castle 1827
D18029
Turner Bequest CCVII 21a
Pencil on white wove paper, 100 x 74 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned vertically, the main subject seems to be yachts racing, seen from astern. At right-angles to them is the profile of the East Cowes headland, which continues across folio 22 recto opposite, where East Cowes Castle and Cowes Castle are seen from the west. For more on studies in this sketchbook relating to the regatta events at Cowes from late July 1827 onwards, see the sketchbook Introduction.

Matthew Imms
December 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘?Yachts Racing; East Cowes: The Headland and Castle 1827 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 2014, 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-racing-east-cowes-the-headland-and-castle-r1183517, accessed 20 September 2024.