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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Channel Islands from a Distance ?1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Channel Islands from a Distance’ ?1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 89 Verso:
Channel Islands from a Distance ?1832
D23692
Turner Bequest CCLII 89a
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 187 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Guernsey’ top centre, ‘Jethou Herm’ bottom centre, inverted, ‘Sark’ bottom right, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner worked distant views of the various Channel Islands onto this page, some of which he identified with rapid notations. The sketch at the top of the page is Guernsey, the largest island studied in this sketchbook. The three land-masses depicted along the bottom of the page, inverted in relation to the sketchbook as foliated, are identified by Turner’s notes as the islands of Sark, Herm, and Jethou.
Technical notes:
There is a small patch of red ink in the bottom left-hand corner of the page.

John Chu
April 2014

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Channel Islands from a Distance ?1832 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-channel-islands-from-a-distance-r1175184, accessed 27 September 2024.