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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Coastal Views at Ostend, with the Lighthouse and a Windmill 1840

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Coastal Views at Ostend, with the Lighthouse and a Windmill’ 1840
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 2 Recto:
Coastal Views at Ostend, with the Lighthouse and a Windmill 1840
D30462
Turner Bequest CCCIII 2
Pencil on flecked pale blue laid paper, 104 x 170 mm
Partial watermark: Tree of Liberty
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘2’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCCIII – 2’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
There are two drawings here, made with the page turned horizontally both ways. With the gutter at the bottom, the larger view shows the slender lighthouse (since replaced) overlooking the harbour channel, as seen on numerous adjacent pages, and other buildings including a nearby windmill. The other way up is a shore study with waves or dunes in the foreground, perhaps with one or two small, silhouetted figures.
For the numerous Ostend views at this end of the sketchbook, marking the end of Turner’s 1840 tour, see under folio 1 recto (D30460),1 which includes small studies with the lighthouse against the sunset.
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See also Powell 1995, pp.72, 82 note 71, 246.
Technical notes:
For discussion of the watermark, see the overall technical notes in the sketchbook’s Introduction.1

Matthew Imms
September 2018

1
See also Bower 1999, pp.102–3.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Coastal Views at Ostend, with the Lighthouse and a Windmill 1840 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2018, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2019, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-coastal-views-at-ostend-with-the-lighthouse-and-a-windmill-r1196222, accessed 05 July 2024.