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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner On Coast at Aldeburgh c.1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘On Coast at Aldeburgh’ c.1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 57 Verso:
On Coast at Aldeburgh c.1824
D18269
Turner Bequest CCIX 57a
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
Rendered with the sketchbook turned upside down, here Turner depicts views of Aldeburgh, a town on the Suffolk North Sea coast. Aspects of this sketch were developed into a highly finished watercolour entitled Aldborough, Suffolk of around 1826 (Tate N05236). The uppermost view shows St Peter and St Paul Church and a windmill close to the shore. Boats are pictured moored on a beach at centre and at rear, orientated inversely relative to the other sketches, is a cursory jotting of Aldeburgh windmill. See also Tate D18266–D18268, D18270–D18272; Turner Bequest 56–57, 58–59a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
January 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘On Coast at Aldeburgh c.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-on-coast-at-aldeburgh-r1181151, accessed 27 September 2024.