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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country and Yorkshire 1814-17 > Review at Portsmouth Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Sailing Vessels in the Distance, off Portsmouth 1814

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sailing Vessels in the Distance, off Portsmouth’ 1814
Folio 24 Recto:
Sailing Vessels in the Distance, off Portsmouth 1814
D10011
Turner Bequest CXXXVI 24
Pencil on white wove paper, 82 x 119 mm
Inscribed in red ink ‘24’ bottom left, descending vertically (smudged)
Stamped in black ‘CXXXVI – 24’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned horizontally, this is a distant view of seven sailing vessels in a horizontal line. For further discussion, see under folio 23 verso opposite (D10010), a similar study.
The verso, D10012, is a related sketch of Portsmouth from the sea.

Vanessa Otim
March 2025

How to cite

Vanessa Otim, ‘Sailing Vessels in the Distance, off Portsmouth 1814’, catalogue entry, March 2025, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, July 2026, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/sailing-vessels-in-the-distance-off-portsmouth-r1213916, accessed 31 July 2026.