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 Beach after 1825

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Beach’ after 1825
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Beach after 1825
D25347
Turner Bequest CCLXIII 225
Watercolour on white wove paper, 188 x 271 mm
Watermark ‘[...]BLEACHD’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘225’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXIII – 225’ bottom right
Blind stamped with Turner Bequest monogram centre
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 sheet was cut from a much larger sheet, some of the other sections of which Turner specialist Eric Shanes has located in the Turner Bequest.1 These are: Tate D25346, D25348, D25395 (Turner Bequest CCLXIII 224, 226, 272). Each of these sections bears a different fragment of the watermark reading ‘T EDMONDS’, ‘1825’, and ‘NOT BLEACHED’. To these four sheets, paper expert Peter Bower added Tate D25396–D25398 (Turner Bequest CCLXIII 273–275).2
1
Eric Shanes, Turner’s Watercolour Explorations 1810–1842, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p.40.
2
Peter Bower, Turner’s Later Papers: A Study of the Manufacture, Selection and Use of his Drawing Papers 1820–1851, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1999, p.85
Verso:
Speckled with small spots of watercolour across the sheet.

John Chu
June 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Beach after 1825 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-beach-r1182795, accessed 21 November 2024.