Sketchbook bound in red calf with marbled end papers, comprising 88 leaves with 74 watercolors and 26 graphite sketches on medium, slightly textured, white wove paper
Dimensions:
Binding: 4 inches (10.2 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed inside front flyleaf in graphite: "Sketch Book of Turner's"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1993.30.118
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors-Sketchbooks
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
marine art | sketchbook | sketches | channel (water body component)
Associated Places:
Folkestone | United Kingdom | Europe | France | Boulogne | English Channel | La Manche
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26)An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Royal Academy of Arts, 2007-10-20 - 2008-01-27)Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)Behold the Sea (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-06-14 - 2003-09-07)
Publications:
John Baskett, Paul Mellon's Legacy: a Passion for British Art: Masterpieces from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, p. 286, no. 94, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)David Blayney Brown, J. M. W. Turner : Painting Set Free, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2014, pp. 193-194, fig. 55, NJ18.T85 J1552 2014 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Franny Moyle, Turner : The Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of J.M.W. Turner, Penguin Books, New York, 2016, p. 416-418, NJ18 T85 M79 2016 (YCBA)Patrick Noon, A Princely Amateur : Paul Mellon and his Collection of British Drawings, , Master Drawings, vol. 38, Master Drawings Association, Inc., Fall 2000, p. 240, fig. 2, NC1 .M37 (YCBA) Another copy available as item V2329.Tony Smibert, Turner's Apprentice : a watercolour class, Thames and Hudson, 2020, p. 341, NJ18.T85 S65 2020 Oversize (YCBA)Sam Smiles, The late works of J. M. W. Turner : the artist and his critics, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, 2020, p.66, fig. 31, NJ18.t85 S655 2020 Oversize (YCBA)Ian Warrell, Turner's Sketchbooks, Tate Publishing, London, 2014, pp. 224-226, NJ18.T85 W378 2014 (YCBA)Andrew Wilton, Turner in His Time, , Thames and Hudson, London, 2006, p. 236, NJ18 T85 W592 2006 OVERSIZE (YCBA)