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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Views of Aldeburgh from the Harbour 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Views of Aldeburgh from the Harbour’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 57 Recto:
Two Views of Aldeburgh from the Harbour 1824
D18268
Turner Bequest CCIX 57
Pencil on white wove paper, 115 x 118 mm
Watermarked ‘[al]lee | [18]19’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These loose and swiftly rendered sketches show the town of Aldeburgh on the Suffolk North Sea coast. Drawing from a vantage point near Aldeburgh harbour, Turner depicts the Slaughden Martello Tower in the uppermost view and the harbour with the distant profile of St Peter and St Paul Church in the lowermost (see Tate D18267; Turner Bequest CCIX 56a). Slaughden Martello Tower became a distinctive feature of the final design for Aldborough, Suffolk (Tate N05236). Built in 1810–12, the tower was part of the coastal defence system against Napoleon’s threatened invasion.1

Alice Rylance-Watson
January 2015

1
Warrell 1991, p.45 no.35.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Two Views of Aldeburgh from the Harbour 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-two-views-of-aldeburgh-from-the-harbour-r1181150, accessed 27 September 2024.