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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Boats Sailing on the New Maas 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 18 Verso:
Boats Sailing on the New Maas 1835
D32478
Turner Bequest CCCXXI 18
Pencil on off-white laid paper, 153 x 95 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned upside down, here Turner depicts vessels of various types on the New Maas, probably near Brielle (see Tate D32471; Turner Bequest CCCXXI 14a).
Recto:
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘18’ and stamped in black ‘CCCXXI–18’, bottom right.

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2016

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Boats Sailing on the New Maas 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2016, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-boats-sailing-on-the-new-maas-r1187293, accessed 28 March 2024.