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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Second Italian Tour 1828-9 > Roman and French Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Cliffs at ?Dover c.1828

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Cliffs at ?Dover’ c.1828
Folio 12 Verso:
Cliffs at ?Dover c.1828
D21874
Turner Bequest CCXXXVII 12a
Pencil on white wove paper, 71 x 88 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page features two rough profiles of coastal cliffs dotted with buildings. Both studies are inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, and apparently extend onto folio 13 recto opposite (D21875). The subject is possibly Dover, as tentatively identified by Finberg for the recto (D21873).1

Hannah Kaspar
December 2024

1
Finberg 1909, II, p.726.

How to cite

Hannah Kaspar, ‘Cliffs at ?Dover c.1828’, catalogue entry, December 2024, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, February 2025, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/cliffs-at-dover-r1210432, accessed 17 April 2025.