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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Kent Coast and Whaling c.1844-5 > Ideas of Folkestone Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Cliffs, Probably at Folkestone 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Cliffs, Probably at Folkestone’ 1845
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 13 Verso:
Cliffs, Probably at Folkestone 1845
D35375
Turner Bequest CCCLVI 14 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 230 x 328 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner has produced this pencil drawing with the sketchbook turned upside down relative to the foliation. This is a rough marking out of the profile of a cliff and surrounding topography produced with rapid, summary handling. What appears to be the number ‘70’ or ‘170’ has been inscribed towards the top right, above a scribbled pencil mark.
Technical notes:
Some of the watercolour from folio 15 recto (D35376) has offset onto the page.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Cliffs, Probably at Folkestone 1845 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, June 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-cliffs-probably-at-folkestone-r1142153, accessed 21 November 2024.