Line Fishing, Off Hastings

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Line Fishing, Off Hastings
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (RA) - Line Fishing, Off Hastings - Google Art Project.jpg
Artist J. M. W. Turner
Yearc.1835
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions58.4 cm× 76.2 cm(23.0 in× 30.0 in)
Location Victoria and Albert Museum, London
AccessionFA.207[O]
Website collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O82565/line-fishing-off-hastings-oil-painting-turner-joseph-mallord/

Line Fishing, Off Hastings is an 1835 maritime painting by the British artist J.M.W. Turner. [1] [2] It depicts a scene off the port of Hastings in the English Channel. [3] Fishing boats are engaged in handline fishing. West Cliff is prominent on the background. Turner has visited the area around 1816 and sketched the scene, producing a watercolour based on it a couple of years later.

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It was displayed at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition of 1835 at Somerset House. Today the painting is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, having been donated by John Sheepshanks in 1857. [4] William Miller later produced an engraving based on the painting, a version of which is now in the collection of the Tate Gallery. [5]

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