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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Autumn Tour of Northern France 1845 > Dieppe and Kent Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Sailing Boat off the Channel Coast 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Sailing Boat off the Channel Coast’ 1845
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 40 Verso:
A Sailing Boat off the Channel Coast 1845
D35558
Turner Bequest CCCLXI 40a
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 86 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘[...]’ above centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned vertically. The upper half is taken up with a vigorous study which seems to show a sailing boat off a Channel coastline. Turner’s comment below it is illegible. See the sketchbook’s Introduction for the many slight coastal views scattered through it.
At the gutter is a slight continuation of one of the horizontal view at Eu on folio 41 recto opposite (D35559)
Technical notes:
There is some brown staining at the gutter, possibly indicating water damage in the 1928 Tate flood.

Matthew Imms
September 2016

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Sailing Boat off the Channel Coast 1845 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2016, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-sailing-boat-off-the-channel-coast-r1183978, accessed 21 September 2024.