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 ?Kent Coastal Views around St Margaret's at Cliffe and Margate 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Kent Coastal Views around St Margaret's at Cliffe and Margate’ 1845
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 25 Verso:
?Kent Coastal Views around St Margaret’s at Cliffe and Margate 1845
D35531
Turner Bequest CCCLXI 25a
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 86 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘[?dark sky]’ top centre, ‘[?St Marg...]’ towards top right and ‘Marg[...]’ towards bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned vertically, Turner records a series of coastal profiles, presumably noted while at sea. The slight annotations may indicate St Margaret’s at Cliffe, near Dover (see under folio 20 verso; D35523) and Turner’s familiar Kent base at Margate (see under folio 99 verso; D35666). There are similar studies on folio 26 verso (D35532).

Matthew Imms
September 2016

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘?Kent Coastal Views around St Margaret’s at Cliffe and Margate 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-kent-coastal-views-around-st-margarets-at-cliffe-and-margate-r1183953, accessed 17 January 2025.