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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Shipping and Bunting, Probably at Cowes 1827

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Shipping and Bunting, Probably at Cowes’ 1827
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 42 Recto:
Shipping and Bunting, Probably at Cowes 1827
D18070
Turner Bequest CCVII 42
Pencil on white wove paper, 74 x 100 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘42’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘CCVII – 42’ 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 very slight sketch of the masts of shipping. Below is a barely more developed study of bunting flying from masts or flagpoles beside low buildings, probably on the waterfront at Cowes. Compare that seen in the distance to the right of centre in 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 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, pp.150–1 no.243, pl.247 (colour).

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Shipping and Bunting, 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-shipping-and-bunting-probably-at-cowes-r1183558, accessed 16 April 2024.