Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Oil paintings
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
<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>
Seascape with a Sailing Boat and a Ship
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
boat, sailing
sea
seascapes and coasts
ship - non-specific
society
transport: water
painting oil paint canvas
11 March 2022 – 18 June 2022
2022-06-18
11 March 2022 – 18 June 2022
2022-06-18
2022-03-11
Turner Contemporary (Margate, UK)
2022-03-11
JMW Turner
Loan-out
Seascape with a Sailing Boat and a Ship
support: 467 × 610 mm
frame: 560 × 697 × 34 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
<p><b>275. </b>[<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-seascape-with-a-sailing-boat-and-a-ship-n05520" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05520</span></a>]<b> Seascape with a Sailing Boat and a Ship</b> <i>c.</i>
1825–30</p>
<p>THE TATE GALLERY, LONDON (5520)</p>
<p>Canvas, 18 3/8 × 24 (47 × 61)</p>
<p><b>Coll.</b> Turner Bequest 1856 (? 168, one of 2 each 2'0" × 1'6 1/4" with ? No. 459 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-waves-breaking-on-a-shore-n05495" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05495</span></a>]; tentatively identified 1946 by chalk number on back); transferred to the Tate Gallery 1947.</p>
<p><b>Lit.</b> Davies 1946, pp. 165, 188.</p>
<p>The placing of the two ships is reminiscent of such works as the Thames Estuary pictures of 1808–10 but in a much simplified, <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/a/abstract-art" title="Glossary definition for 'Abstract art'"><span>abstracted</span></a> manner and this unfinished picture probably dates from the later 1820s when Turner's interest in marine scenes was reawakened by his studies of the regatta at Cowes (see Nos. 260–68 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-sketch-for-east-cowes-castle-the-regatta-beating-to-windward-no-3-n01993" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N01993</span></a>-2001]).</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, <i>The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner</i>, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984
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Catalogue entry
2004-10-07T00:00:00
catalogue-entry
CATALOGUE_ENTRY
boat, sailing sea seascapes and coasts ship - non-specific society transport: water