Oil on board
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
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Ship in a Storm
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
mist
sea
seascapes and coasts
ship - non-specific
society
storm
transport: water
wave
weather
paper unique oil board
20 April 2006 – 13 August 2006
2006-08-13
20 April 2006 – 13 August 2006
2006-08-13
2006-04-20
Oklahoma City Museum of Art (Oklahoma, USA)
http://www.okcmoa.com
2006-04-20
Tempests and Romantic Visionaries: Images of Storms in European and American Art
Loan-out
23 March 2009 – 3 August 2009
2009-08-03
20 March 2009 – 3 August 2009
2009-08-03
2009-03-20
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2009-03-23
Limitless Horizons: Turner's Later Seascapes
Collection based display
8 October 2011 – 28 May 2012
2012-05-28
8 October 2011 – 15 January 2012
2012-01-15
2011-10-08
Moderna Museet (Stockholm, Sweden)
11 February 2012 – 28 May 2012
2012-05-28
2012-02-11
Staatsgalerie (Stuttgart, Germany)
http://www.staatsgalerie.de/
2011-10-08
On the Other Side of Air:Later paintings by Turner, Monet, Twombly
Loan-out
8 October 2011 – 28 October 2012
2012-10-28
8 October 2011 – 8 January 2012
2012-01-08
2011-10-08
Moderna Museet (Stockholm, Sweden)
11 February 2012 – 28 May 2012
2012-05-28
2012-02-11
Staatsgalerie (Stuttgart, Germany)
http://www.staatsgalerie.de/
29 June 2012 – 28 October 2012
2012-10-28
2012-06-29
Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/
2011-10-08
Turner Monet Twombly: Later Paintings
Exhibition
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
26 September 2022 – 15 September 2023
2023-09-15
26 September 2022 – 15 September 2023
2023-09-15
2022-09-26
Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/
2022-09-26
JMW Turner and Lamin Fofana: Dark Waters
Collection based display
Ship in a Storm
support: 303 × 476 mm
frame: 548 × 725 × 25 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>[from]<b> Nos. 487–500: Sketches of Coast and other Scenes, <i>c.</i> 1840–5?</b></p>
<p>THESE fourteen sketches on millboard were discovered in the early 1960s in a parcel among the works from the Turner Bequest transferred from the Tate Gallery to the British Museum in 1931; they had not been numbered or included in Finberg's 1909 <i>Inventory</i>. They fall into three groups according to size, approx. 10 1/2 × 12 in., 9 3/4 × 13 1/2 in. and 12 × 19 in., but form a homogeneous group technically and stylistically. Two further sketches from the same parcel are distinct in style, technique and the type of millboard used (see Nos. 485 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-red-sky-over-a-beach-d36676" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>D36676</span></a>] and 486 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-shore-scene-with-waves-and-breakwater-d36680" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>D36680</span></a>]). <i>Ship in a Storm</i> (No. 489 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-ship-in-a-storm-d36682" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>D36682</span></a>]) is close in <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/composition" title="Glossary definition for 'Composition'"><span>composition</span></a> to <i>Snow Storm—Steam-Boat off a Harbour Mouth</i>, exhibited in 1842 (see No. 398 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-snow-storm-steam-boat-off-a-harbours-mouth-n00530" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N00530</span></a>]), while others from the group such as <i>Sunset seen from a Beach with Breakwater</i> (No. 497 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-sunset-seen-from-a-beach-with-breakwater-d36679" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>D36679</span></a>]) are the equivalent in oils of very late <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/w/watercolour" title="Glossary definition for 'Watercolour'"><span>watercolours</span></a> such as those in the ‘Ambleteuse and Wimereux’ sketchbook of 1845 (CCCLVII). However, compositional resemblances help very little in dating Turner's late works and comparison between works in different <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/m/medium" title="Glossary definition for 'Medium'"><span>media</span></a> is equally fruitless.</p>
<p>Thirteen unspecified sketches from Nos 485–500 were first exhibited at the British Museum in 1962 (see under ‘Lit.’ below).</p>
<p><b>Lit.</b> <i>Sketch Books and Albums of Drawings, German Gothic and Renaissance Prints: Oil Sketches by J.M.W. Turner. Exhibition held in the Department of Prints and Drawings</i> 1962; ‘British Museum: Rediscovered Oil Sketches by J.M.W. Turner’, <i>Illustrated London News</i> 10 March 1962, p. 371.</p>
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<p><b>489. </b>[<span>D36682</span>]<b> Ship in a Storm</b> <i>c.</i> 1840–5? </p>
<p>THE BRITISH MUSEUM, LONDON (1972.U.739)</p>
<p>Millboard, irregular, 11 7/8 × 18 3/4 (30 × 47·5)</p>
<p><b>Coll.</b> Turner Bequest 1856.</p>
<p><b>Exh.</b> Tokyo and Osaka (repr.) and Hong Kong 1963–4 (10); R.A. 1974–5 (498).</p>
<p>Similar in composition to <i>Snow Storm-Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth</i>, exhibited in 1842 (see No. 398 [<span>N00530</span>]) but not necessarily actually used as a sketch for that picture.</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
2004-09-22T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
mist sea seascapes and coasts ship - non-specific society storm transport: water wave weather
M 1972 U739