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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sailing Boats at Portsmouth 1844

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sailing Boats at Portsmouth’ 1844
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 19 Verso:
Sailing Boats at Portsmouth 1844
D35719
Turner Bequest CCCLXII 19
Pencil on white wove paper, 74 x 116 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this slight drawing shows small sailing boats, apparently with the masts and spars of a larger vessel beyond to the left. Like the other rapid sketches in this book this presumably relates to the arrival of Louis-Philippe, King of the French, at Portsmouth Harbour on 8 October 1844, as discussed in the Introductions to the sketchbook and the overall section.
The blank recto is inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘19’ and stamped in black ‘CCCLXII – 19’ at the bottom right. For numerous instances of blank, unaccessioned rectos in this sketchbook, see the technical notes in the Introduction.

Matthew Imms
September 2016

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Sailing Boats at Portsmouth 1844 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, March 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-sailing-boats-at-portsmouth-r1185663, accessed 18 April 2024.