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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Northern France c.1826-32 > France and Folkestone Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Sailboats c.1826

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sailboats’ c.1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 13 Verso:
Sailboats c.1826
D24130
Turner Bequest CCLVI 12a
Pencil on white laid paper, 158 x 104 mm
Partial watermark of a crown and laurels
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner filled much of this pages with studies of boats at with their sails unfurled. The seaside sketches in this volume have been located to the regions around Dover, Folkestone, and Calais on each side of the English Channel.1 The bottommost study continued onto folio 14 recto opposite (D24131; Turner Bequest CCLVI 13).

John Chu
July 2015

1
A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.II, p.777; Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p.156.

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Sailboats c.1826 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-sailboats-r1185423, accessed 25 April 2024.