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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Autumn Tour of Northern France 1845 > Dieppe and Kent Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Dover Castle 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Dover Castle’ 1845
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 84 Verso:
Dover Castle 1845
D35637
Turner Bequest CCCLXI 84a
Pencil on white wove paper, 86 x 111 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, the slight upper view appears to show Dover Castle to the north, on the cliffs above the harbour; compare the watercolour Dover (D18154; Turner Bequest CCVIII U),1 engraved in 1827 for the Ports of England (Tate impressions: T04828, T04829). The second sketch, albeit the other way up, may be a continuation to the right, or another view of the Kent coast.
For other views of Dover on adjacent pages, see under folio 20 verso (D35523).

Matthew Imms
September 2016

1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.387 no.753, reproduced.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Dover Castle 1845 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2016, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-dover-castle-r1184053, accessed 03 February 2025.