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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
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 13 Recto:
Cliffs at ?Dover c.1828
D21875
Turner Bequest CCXXXVII 13
Pencil on white wove paper, 71 x 88 mm
Inscribed in red ink ‘13’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘CCXXXVII – 13’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page features two rough outlines of coastal cliffs dotted with buildings and trees, which are inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation. Both studies appear to extend onto folio 12 verso opposite (D21874). They possibly depict Dover, a subject tentatively proposed by Finberg in his 1909 Inventory of the Bequest for folio 12 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-r1210433, accessed 17 April 2025.