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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Tour of Yorkshire 1816 > Yorkshire 2 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Kent Estuary at Milnthorpe 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Kent Estuary at Milnthorpe’ 1816 (Inside front cover of sketchbook)
Inside front cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inside Front Cover:
The Kent Estuary at Milnthorpe 1816
D41443
Pencil on white wove paper, 96 x 154 mm
Inscribed by the bookseller in pencil with the price ‘3/0’ top right, descending vertically
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Milnthorpe’ towards top right
Stamped in black ink with the Turner Bequest number ‘CXLV’ top left, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The sketch, made with the page turned horizontally, is a very quick memorandum, but appears to record the view north towards the Lakeland Hills from the edge of the Kent estuary near Milnthorpe. The lower register of the sketch on Tate D11044; Turner Bequest CXLV 2 records a very similar subject, and similar material is recorded in greater detail in a sketch in the Yorkshire 4 sketchbook (Tate D11500; Turner Bequest CXLVII 36), which accompanied Turner on the same tour. The present author has dated Turner’s sketches in the Milnthorpe area to Monday 5 August 1816.1

David Hill
April 2009

1
See Hill 1984, pp.78–83.

How to cite

David Hill, ‘The Kent Estuary at Milnthorpe 1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2009, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2023, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-kent-estuary-at-milnthorpe-r1201627, accessed 21 November 2024.