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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Margate, London and Surrey c.1829-45 > Marine Dabblers Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Buildings in an Open Landscape; ?Coastal Cliffs, Perhaps near Margate c.1829-30

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Buildings in an Open Landscape; ?Coastal Cliffs, Perhaps near Margate’ c.1829-30
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 2 Verso:
Buildings in an Open Landscape; ?Coastal Cliffs, Perhaps near Margate c.1829–30
D22466
Turner Bequest CCXLI 2a
Pencil on gilt-edged white wove paper, 89 x 113 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned horizontally, an isolated group of domestic buildings is shown at the centre. They seem to be in the middle of a rather indeterminate open landscape with a horizon above them, or perhaps by a shore. Along the bottom of the page appears to be a separate sketch, apparently showing the profile of a coastline with a small building or tower silhouetted towards the left. There are identified views of Margate elsewhere in this book; see the Introduction.

Matthew Imms
May 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Buildings in an Open Landscape; ?Coastal Cliffs, Perhaps near Margate c.1829–30 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-buildings-in-an-open-landscape-coastal-cliffs-perhaps-near-r1148358, accessed 20 May 2024.