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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Autumn Tour of Northern France 1845 > Dieppe and Kent Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Fishing Village on a Channel Coast 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Fishing Village on a Channel Coast’ 1845
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 9 Recto:
A Fishing Village on a Channel Coast 1845
D35503
Turner Bequest CCCLXI 9
Pencil on white wove paper, 86 x 111 mm
Watermark ‘W King | 1842’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘9’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCLXI – 9’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view is continued on folio 8 verso opposite (D35502), under which the possible subject is discussed. In this half, small boats are shown in a harbour or beached.
Technical notes:
There is some brown staining at the gutter, possibly indicating water damage in the 1928 Tate flood.

Matthew Imms
September 2016

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Fishing Village on a Channel Coast 1845 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2016, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-fishing-village-on-a-channel-coast-r1183928, accessed 21 November 2024.