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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Coast at Ostend 1840

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Coast at Ostend’ 1840
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 7 Recto:
The Coast at Ostend 1840
D30472
Turner Bequest CCCIII 7
Pencil on flecked pale blue laid paper, 104 x 170 mm
Partial watermark (countermark): indecipherable maker’s name
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Warm [... ?with Sea]’ top centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘7’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCCIII – 7’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned horizontally, this is a very slight continuation of the beach or waves in the foreground of a view of Ostend immediately across the gutter on folio 6 verso opposite (D30471), to which the only partly legible descriptive inscription here relates. 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

1
See also Powell 1995, p.246.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The Coast at Ostend 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-r1196232, accessed 21 November 2024.