Joseph Mallord William Turner
1775-1851
Wreck on the Goodwin Sands
ca. 1845
9 1/16 x 13 1/16 inches (230 x 332 mm); in decorative frame: 17 1/4 x 21 1/16 x 1 3/16 inches
Watercolor and graphite, with black chalk, on wove paper.
1996.67
Bequest of Miss Alice Tully.
Notes
From a dismembered sketchbook dated to ca. 1845 by comparison to other dated sketchbooks. The inscribed lines from from a longer, unpublished poem entitled "The Fallacies of Hope."
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in pencil, "And [dolphins?] play around the wreck / The man's [hope?] holding all that hoped / admits the [work?] of the almighty's hand [failing?] fallacy Hope [illegible] far sail / Wreck on the Goodwins".
Associated names
Tully, Alice, 1902-1993, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
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