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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Yachts Passing Moored Ships; Regatta Spectators with a Telescope, Probably at Cowes 1827

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Yachts Passing Moored Ships; Regatta Spectators with a Telescope, Probably at Cowes’ 1827
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 36 Recto:
Yachts Passing Moored Ships; Regatta Spectators with a Telescope, Probably at Cowes 1827
D18058
Turner Bequest CCVII 36
Pencil on white wove paper, 74 x 100 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘36’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘CCVII – 36’ 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 right is a group of men standing with a telescope, another man sitting, and what seems to be a woman in a large bonnet. They are presumably watching the racing yachts seen on many adjacent pages. Ann Chumbley and Ian Warrell have noted these figures in relation to another group with a telescope on folio 33 recto (D18052);1 see also folio 19 recto (D18024).
With the page turned vertically, at the outer end is a study of yachts in full sail passing moored ships. 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

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See Chumbley and Warrell 1989, p.60.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Yachts Passing Moored Ships; Regatta Spectators with a Telescope, Probably at Cowes 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-passing-moored-ships-regatta-spectators-with-a-r1183546, accessed 25 April 2024.