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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Yachts off East Cowes Castle 1827

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Yachts off East Cowes Castle’ 1827
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 41 Verso:
Yachts off East Cowes Castle 1827
D18069
Turner Bequest CCVII 41a
Pencil on white wove paper, 74 x 100 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
In this slight study, yachts are shown with the profile of East Cowes Castle beyond and a low sun in the south. This could have been the germ of the idea of the painting East Cowes Castle, the Seat of J. Nash, Esq.; the Regatta Starting for their Moorings, exhibited in at the Royal Academy in 1828 (Victoria and Albert Museum, London),1 where these elements are similarly juxtaposed. 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

1
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, pp.150–1 no.243, pl.247 (colour).

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Yachts 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-off-east-cowes-castle-r1183557, accessed 25 April 2024.