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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Yachts Passing a Moored Ship 1827

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Yachts Passing a Moored Ship’ 1827
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 49 Recto:
Yachts Passing a Moored Ship 1827
D18083
Turner Bequest CCVII 49
Pencil on white wove paper, 74 x 100 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘49’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘CCVII – 49’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, only the sails of the yachts in the foreground are shown. Beyond to the left are the masts of a large ship, probably a warship, moored and bedecked with flags or bunting, as seen in the background of the painting East Cowes Castle, the Seat of J. Nash, Esq.; the Regatta Beating to Windward, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1828 (Indianapolis Museum of Art).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, p.150 no.242, pl.246 (colour).

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Yachts Passing a Moored Ship 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-a-moored-ship-r1183571, accessed 24 April 2024.