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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sailing Boats with East Cowes Castle in the Distance 1827

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sailing Boats with East Cowes Castle in the Distance’ 1827
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 45 Recto:
Sailing Boats with East Cowes Castle in the Distance 1827
D18075
Turner Bequest CCVII 45
Pencil on white wove paper, 74 x 100 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘45’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘CCVII – 45’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this slight study shows sailing boats moored off East Cowes Castle. 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).
Technical notes:
There is prominent brown staining, apparently from a spillage, which has been offset onto folio 44 verso opposite (D18074) and soaked through to the verso (D18076).

Matthew Imms
December 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Sailing Boats with East Cowes Castle in the Distance 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-sailing-boats-with-east-cowes-castle-in-the-distance-r1183563, accessed 26 April 2024.