Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Pencil blue on paper, 139 x 190 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is one of a large number of sketches on loose sheets of paper depicting coastal terrain and seagoing vessels in various combinations. For the grouping and dating of these works to the middle and later periods of Turner’s career, see the section introduction. This sketch was not recorded by A.J. Finberg in his 1909
Inventory of the Turner Bequest.
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The sheet is mounted so as only to expose the small area of the paper worked up by Turner.
The recto is
D24911 (Turner Bequest CCLX 75).
How to cite
John Chu, ‘Coastal Terrain c.1830 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-coastal-terrain-r1182746, accessed 21 November 2024.
