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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Sailing Boat Carrying Several People 1827

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 35 Verso:
A Sailing Boat Carrying Several People 1827
D18057
Turner Bequest CCVII 35a
Pencil on white wove paper, 74 x 100 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page comprises an isolated study of a small, two-masted boat, with three or four people lightly indicated on board. 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, ‘A Sailing Boat Carrying Several People 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-a-sailing-boat-carrying-several-people-r1183545, accessed 28 March 2024.