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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Kent Coast and Whaling c.1844-5 > Hythe and Walmer Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Cliffs on the Coast 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Cliffs on the Coast’ 1845
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 2 Recto:
Cliffs on the Coast 1845
D35336
Turner Bequest CCCLV 2
Pencil on blue wove paper, 70 x 186 mm
Inscribed by H.S. Trimmer in ink ‘No 206 | This book contains | 14 leaves with sketches | on white & Tinted Paper’, by Charles Turner in ink ‘C. Turner’, by Charles Lock Eastlake in pencil ‘C.L.E’ and by John Prescott Knight in pencil ‘JPK’ at left, ascending vertically
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram left of centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘2’ top right, ascending vertically
Inscribed in pencil ‘CCCLV’ towards top left, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCCLV–2’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner has produced the drawing with the page turned horizontally relative to the foliation. This is a rough sketch of a downward sloping cliff, where Turner has rendered the craggy outcrops and contours of the top of the cliff. The marks at the right may indicate a separate drawing of a cliff, where the sketchbook has been turned upside down relative to the foliation. This drawing seems to continue onto the bottom of folio 1 verso opposite (D35335).
Technical notes:
There is some discolouration on the left- and right-hand side of the page where the paper has browned through exposure.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Cliffs on the Coast 1845 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, June 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-cliffs-on-the-coast-r1142167, accessed 24 November 2024.