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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Panorama of the Kent Estuary near Milnthorpe 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Panorama of the Kent Estuary near Milnthorpe’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 1 Verso:
A Panorama of the Kent Estuary near Milnthorpe 1816
D11043
Turner Bequest CXLV 1a
Pencil on white wove paper, 96 x 154 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Milth[...]’ towards top right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
In the present sketch the two registers record a view identified by the inscriptions as either being from or of Milnthorpe. A similar shoreline tower appears in a more detailed sketch in the Yorkshire 4 sketchbook (Tate D11500; Turner Bequest CXLVII 36), and it is possible that the present sketch is taken from the north side of a tower just north of the river Bela, looking south. The present author has dated Turner’s sketches in the Milnthorpe area to Monday 5 August 1816.1 This sketch, made with the page turned horizontally, is upside-down in relation to the main sequence (see the sketchbook’s Introduction).
The author has previously suggested that the two registers of sketches on this page, together with the four registers on folio 2 recto opposite (D11044), might constitute one continuous panorama.2 This is not certain, although it is clear that both pages record views in the Kent Estuary near Milnthorpe.

David Hill
April 2009

1
See Hill 1984, pp.78–83.
2
See ibid., p.30.

How to cite

David Hill, ‘A Panorama of the Kent Estuary near Milnthorpe 1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2009, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2023, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-panorama-of-the-kent-estuary-near-milnthorpe-r1201629, accessed 17 May 2024.