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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > East Anglia, Sussex and Yorkshire 1824 > Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant Views of ?Corton and Heston c.1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant Views of ?Corton and Heston’ c.1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 35 Recto:
Distant Views of ?Corton and Heston c.1824
D18224
Turner Bequest CCIX 35
Pencil on white wove paper, 115 x 118 mm
Watermarked ‘al[lee] | 18[19]’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Corton’ top centre towards right, ‘Heston’ centre right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With fluid and cursory handling, here Turner records the coastline near the villages of ‘Corton’ and ‘Heston’ located between Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft. A further sketch of cliffs and a beach has been rendered with the sketchbook turned vertically.

Alice Rylance-Watson
January 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Distant Views of ?Corton and Heston c.1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-distant-views-of-corton-and-heston-r1181106, accessed 27 September 2024.