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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Coast at Ostend, with the Lighthouse and Distant Buildings 1840

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Coast at Ostend, with the Lighthouse and Distant Buildings’ 1840
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 5 Verso:
The Coast at Ostend, with the Lighthouse and Distant Buildings 1840
D30469
Turner Bequest CCCIII 5a
Pencil on flecked pale blue laid paper, 104 x 170 mm
Partial watermark: Tree of Liberty
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘3’ towards top left, ‘2’ centre left, and ‘1’ towards bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The three numbered drawings were made with the page turned horizontally. The first shows Ostend’s old lighthouse, among dunes or waves overlooking the harbour channel north-east of the town, aspects of which are apparently shown in the smaller studies. For numerous Ostend views on adjacent pages, marking the end of Turner’s 1840 tour, see under folio 1 recto (D30460).1

Matthew Imms
September 2018

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See also Powell 1995, pp.72, 82 note 71, 246.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The Coast at Ostend, with the Lighthouse and Distant Buildings 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-the-coast-at-ostend-with-the-lighthouse-and-distant-r1196229, accessed 21 November 2024.