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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Yachts and Other Shipping off East Cowes Castle 1827

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Yachts and Other Shipping off East Cowes Castle’ 1827
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 24 Verso:
Yachts and Other Shipping off East Cowes Castle 1827
D18035
Turner Bequest CCVII 24a
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, there are three studies here. At the top, yachts manoeuvre beyond rowing boats in a heavy swell, like those at the centre of the painting East Cowes Castle, the Seat of J. Nash, Esq.; the Regatta Beating to Windward, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1828 (Indianapolis Museum of Art).1 East Cowes Castle is indicated in the distance on the right; for other views of the castle see under folio 22 recto (D18030).
The second study shows the sun low over the masts of a large, silhouetted vessel; compare the contre-jour effect in Shipping off East Cowes Headland, of 1827 (Tate N01999).2 Below to the left is another study of a yacht. 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

1
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, p.150 no.242, pl.246 (colour).
2
Ibid., p.161 no.267 pl.272 (colour).

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Yachts and Other Shipping off East Cowes 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-and-other-shipping-off-east-cowes-castle-r1183523, accessed 26 April 2024.