Great Yarmouth Fishing Boats

c. 1827

Medium	gouache on blue wove paper
Dimensions	image: 5 x 4 1/4 in. (12.7 x 10.8 cm) sheet: 9 11/16 x 7 1/8 in. (24.6 x 18.1 cm)
Object Number	2007.8.111
Acquisition	Gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Joseph Mallord William Turner, Great Yarmouth Fishing Boats, c. 1827, gouache on blue wove paper. Clark Art Institute, gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007.8.111

Select Bibliography

Organizers of the Art Terasures Exhibition.Catalogue of the Art Treasures of the United Kingdom. Collected in Manchester in 1857. Whitefriars, London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857.
Shanes, Eric. Turner's Rivers, Harbours, and Coasts. London: Chatto & Windus. 1981. Wilton, Andrew. Turner, Girtin and Bonington: A New York Private Collection, Paintings, Watercolours, and Drawings. New York: Privately Published, 2001. Graves, Algernon. A Century of Loan Exhibitions, 1813-1912. vol. III: R to U. London: Algernon Graves, 1914. Clarke, Jay, ed. Landscape, Innovation, and Nostalgia: The Manton Collection of British Art. Williamstown, MA: The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2012.

Provenance

Lewis Loyd, Esq. (by 1857); Captain E. N. F. Loyd, his grandson, by descent, sale, Christie’s, London, 30 Apr. 1937, no. 67, sold to Fontansay; Fontansay (in 1937); [Thomas Agnew and Sons, Ltd., London]; Norton Simon, sale, Parke Bernet Galleries, New York, 8 May 1971, no. 216a, sold to Manton; Sir Edwin A. G. Manton, New York (1971–d. 2005); Manton Family Art Foundation (2005–2007, given to the Clark); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2007