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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sketches of Distant Coastline and Islands on the Baltic 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sketches of Distant Coastline and Islands on the Baltic’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 49 Recto
Sketches of Distant Coastline and Islands on the Baltic 1835
D31116
Turner Bequest CCCVII 49
Pencil on cream laid paper, 89 x 162 mm
Watermark double ‘X’ mark
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Grasland’ bottom centre; ‘Redish colour’ centre right; ‘[...]’ towards bottom right
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘49’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCVII–49’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These sketches show distant coastline and islands on the Baltic Sea. Turner has inscribed ‘Grasland’ and ‘Redish colour’ to describe the topography and sky.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Sketches of Distant Coastline and Islands on the Baltic 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-sketches-of-distant-coastline-and-islands-on-the-baltic-r1186991, accessed 25 April 2025.