J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Kent Coast and Whaling c.1844-5 > Hythe and Walmer Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Cliffs on the Coast 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Cliffs on the Coast’ 1845
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 2 Verso:
Cliffs on the Coast 1845
D35337
Turner Bequest CCCLV 2a
Pencil on blue wove paper, 186 x 70 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The sketches on this page are inverted relative to the foliation. The jagged strikes of the pencil at the very top of the page constitute the contours of a cliff which Turner has extended across the page onto folio 3 recto opposite (D35338). Beneath these marks is the outline of a second cliff; here Turner depicts the attenuating section of this cliff which broadens as it extends onto the opposite page to render the headland. Below is a seemingly isolated sketch across the middle of the page. Rapidly rendered, this sketch may depict another cliff structure or beach. It is markedly undeveloped in relation to the other sketches.
Technical notes:
Incidental traces of chalk appear on the surface of the paper, which seem to be unrelated to the drawing.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Cliffs on the Coast 1845 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, June 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-cliffs-on-the-coast-r1142168, accessed 18 May 2024.