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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Calais, On the Coast 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Calais, On the Coast’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 13 Recto:
?Calais, On the Coast 1824
D19576
Turner Bequest CCXVI 13
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘13’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–13’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These swiftly rendered sketches show the headland and harbour of a coastal town, most likely Calais, where the artist disembarked at the very beginning of his tour on 11 August 1824. A sailing boat approaches at centre right, its vertiginous sail pitched diagonally against the wind.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘?Calais, On the Coast 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-calais-on-the-coast-r1174364, accessed 20 May 2024.