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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Cliff with Buildings Above and Beached Boats Below 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Cliff with Buildings Above and Beached Boats Below’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 14 Verso:
A Cliff with Buildings Above and Beached Boats Below 1801
D02414
Turner Bequest LII 14a
Pencil on coarse blue laid paper, 143 x 111 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This seems to be a rapid sketch of Whitby, looking up from the harbour towards the parish church and the Priory on the cliff-top; another possibility is that it shows Scarborough Castle from the beach. The subject is continued on folio 15 recto opposite, and apparently again on folio 16 recto (D02415–D02416).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Cliff with Buildings Above and Beached Boats Below 1801 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-cliff-with-buildings-above-and-beached-boats-below-r1178750, accessed 17 July 2024.