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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Kent Coast and Whaling c.1844-5 > Hythe and Walmer Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Sun Setting off the Shore 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Sun Setting off the Shore’ 1845
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 9 Verso:
The Sun Setting off the Shore 1845
D35351
Turner Bequest CCCLV 9a
Chalk and pencil on blue wove paper, 186 x 70 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘[... ?S ...] O’ top left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner has worked across this page and folio 10 recto opposite (D35352) to produce a sketch of the sun setting beyond the shoreline. Soft horizontal bands of smudged pencil and grainy chalk capture the effects of evening light on the clouds and sea. A group of figures are suggested in rough line towards the bottom of the page.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Sun Setting off the Shore 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-the-sun-setting-off-the-shore-r1142182, accessed 18 May 2024.