Turner is not known to have been at Harwich at the time but could well have witnessed the storm at Margate where he often stayed with Mrs Booth. However, Charles Ninnis has suggested that Turner misremembered the name of the Fairy, which did set out from Harwich on 12 November 1840 and sank with all hands in a storm which began the following day and was still raging on 21 November, ‘the day on which the Princess Royal was born’, as the label on the back of No. Despite Turner's title, no ship called Ariel is known to have been lost or involved in a storm in the years immediately preceding 1842, nor is any ship of that name known to have operated out of Harwich at this time. The picture may recall a particularly bad storm in January 1842 though it has not been possible to tie down the exact incident. 170 Charles Ninnis, ‘The Mystery of the Ariel’, Turner Society News no. 173 Adele Holcomb, ‘John Sell Cotman's Dismasted Brig and the Motif of the Drifiting Boat’, Studies in Romanticism xiv 1975, p. Turner Bequest 1856 (10, ‘Steamer in a Snow Storm’ 4'0" × 3'0") transferred to the Tate Gallery 1910, returned to the National Gallery 1952 and to the Tate Gallery 1968.Įxh. The Author was in this Storm on the Night the Ariel left Harwich Exh. Snow Storm-Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth making Signals in Shallow Water, and going by the Lead.
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