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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Coastal Scenes and Shipping c.1820-45 > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Buildings and Figures ?in Coastal Terrain c.1830

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Buildings and Figures ?in Coastal Terrain’ c.1830
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Buildings and Figures ?in Coastal Terrain c.1830
D40119
Chalk and pencil on blue paper, 191 x 279 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is one of a large number of sketches on loose sheets of paper depicting coastal terrain and seagoing vessels in various combinations. For the grouping and dating of these works to the middle and later periods of Turner’s career, see the section introduction.This sketch was not recorded by A.J. Finberg in his 1909 Inventory of the Turner Bequest.1
The recto is D25111 (Turner Bequest CCLXII 11).

John Chu
June 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Buildings and Figures ?in Coastal Terrain c.1830 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-buildings-and-figures-in-coastal-terrain-r1182779, accessed 09 May 2024.