A Ship Approaching Margate Harbour in a Stormy Sea
Date:
ca. 1840
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, graphite and scraping out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 3/4 x 14 3/8 inches (24.8 x 36.5 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.4.1417
Gallery Label:
In the late 1830s and early 1840s growing ill health led Turner to spend more time on the coast. Yarmouth Sands belongs to this period of engagement with marine subjects, when his focus shifted towards the threatening aspects of the sea with shipwrecks, storms, and violent waves becoming common themes. As in many of these late seascapes, Yarmouth includes vulnerable human figures against a violent storm. The result is an intense investigation of a natural phenomenon with an additional message about the frailty of human culture pitted against the forces of nature. Gallery label for Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17)