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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Rocks on the Coast of the Isle of Wight 1827

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Rocks on the Coast of the Isle of Wight’ 1827
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 4 Recto:
?Rocks on the Coast of the Isle of Wight 1827
D20739
Turner Bequest CCXXVII 4
Pencil on white wove paper prepared with a grey wash, 110 x 185 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘4’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXXVII – 4’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg resorted to describing this barely developed study as a ‘Slight sketch’.1 It perhaps represents rocks on the coast of the Isle of Wight; a more coherent sketch on folio 3 verso opposite (D20738) may show the shore near Ryde on the island, other views of which are noted under folio 2 recto (D20735).

Matthew Imms
November 2015

1
Finberg 1909, II, p.699.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘?Rocks on the Coast of the Isle of Wight 1827 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, November 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-rocks-on-the-coast-of-the-isle-of-wight-r1182606, accessed 21 November 2024.