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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner East Cowes: The Headland and Castle with Shipping; a Yacht 1827

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘East Cowes: The Headland and Castle with Shipping; a Yacht’ 1827
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 23 Recto:
East Cowes: The Headland and Castle with Shipping; a Yacht 1827
D18032
Turner Bequest CCVII 23
Pencil on white wove paper, 74 x 100 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘23’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘CCVII – 23’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, at the top is a view of the East Cowes headland from the west; the skyline continues south to the nearby castle on folio 22 verso opposite (D18031). Numerous sailing boats appear to be moored offshore. Below, the other way up, is the profile of a yacht under sail. For more on studies in this sketchbook relating to the regatta events at Cowes from late July 1827 onwards, see the sketchbook Introduction, and for other views of the castle, see under folio 22 recto (D18030).

Matthew Imms
December 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘East Cowes: The Headland and Castle with Shipping; a Yacht 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-east-cowes-the-headland-and-castle-with-shipping-a-yacht-r1183520, accessed 23 April 2024.