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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Views on Coast ?at or near Portsmouth or Brighton c.1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Views on Coast ?at or near Portsmouth or Brighton’ c.1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 10 Verso:
Views on Coast ?at or near Portsmouth or Brighton c.1824
D18327
Turner Bequest CCX 10a
Pencil on white wove paper, 75 x 118 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Claude [?Morning]’ centre towards top right
Inscribed in pencil ‘10’ bottom left (inverted)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has rendered two cursory views: the uppermost depicts shipping navigating the waters near a harbour at sunrise, the lowermost shows a tower on the coast. The location may be Brighton or Portsmouth.
The artist has inscribed ‘Claude [?Morning]’ directly below the marine view. This is a reference to Claude Lorrain, the French seventeenth-century landscape painter from whom Turner derived much inspiration. See also Tate D18328–D18330; Turner Bequest CCX 11–12.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Views on Coast ?at or near Portsmouth or Brighton c.1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-views-on-coast-at-or-near-portsmouth-or-brighton-r1181212, accessed 19 May 2024.