Chalk on paper
Calais Pier Sketchbook
Calais Pier Sketchbook
History Painting c.1799-1807
History Painting c.1799-1807
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Calais Pier Sketchbook
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
Catalogued Turner works on paper
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/joseph-mallord-william-turner-558" aria-label="More by Joseph Mallord William Turner" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Joseph Mallord William Turner</a>
a Sea Piece with Small Boats in Choppy Water
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
adults
boat - non-specific
figure
group
groups
people
sea
seascapes and coasts
society
transport: water
<p>This sketchbook contains studies in pencil, pen and ink and chalk for a number of Turner’s early exhibited marine oil paintings. The sketches draw on his imagination as well as recording Turner’s own experiences of being at sea.</p><p>In 1802, a brief lull in the Napoleonic Wars permitted travel to France and Turner was able to cross the Channel for the first time. Energetic drawings of waves and spray point to the arduous nature of sea travel at this time. On one page of the book he notes that rough seas ‘nearly swampt’ the passengers disembarking at Calais.</p><p><em>Gallery label, April 2005</em></p>
paper unique chalk
23 March 2005 – 16 October 2005
2005-10-16
23 March 2005 – 16 October 2005
2005-10-16
2005-03-23
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/
2005-03-23
Turner and the Sea
Collection based display
21 November 2013 – 1 September 2014
2014-09-01
21 November 2013 – 21 April 2014
2014-04-21
2013-11-21
National Maritime Museum (London, UK)
http://www.nmm.ac.uk
4 June 2014 – 1 September 2014
2014-09-01
2014-06-04
Peabody Essex Museum (Salem, USA)
http://www.pem.org
2013-11-21
Turner and Marine Painting: Imagining the Sea, 1796 - 1899
Loan-out
Study for a Sea Piece, with Small Boats in Choppy Water
support: 436 × 271 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the <a href="/search?gid=999999781" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Turner Bequest</a> 1856
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<span class="text6">This sketchbook contains studies in pencil, pen and ink      and chalk for a number of Turner’s early exhibited marine oil      paintings. The sketches draw on his imagination as well as recording      Turner’s own experiences of being at sea. </span>
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<span class="text6">In 1802, a brief lull in the Napoleonic Wars permitted      travel to France and Turner was </span><span class="text4">able to cross      the Channel for the first time.</span><span class="text6"> Energetic      drawings of waves and spray point to the arduous nature of sea travel at      this time. On one page of the book he notes that rough seas ‘nearly      swampt’ the passengers disembarking at Calais. </span>
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