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‘Study for a Sea Piece, with Small Boats in Choppy Water’, Joseph Mallord William Turner, c.1799–1805 | Tate

Artwork page for ‘Study for a Sea Piece, with Small Boats in Choppy Water’, Joseph Mallord William Turner, c.1799–1805 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. 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…
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