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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Second Italian Tour 1828-9 > Roman and French Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Coastal View at Shoreham c.1828

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Coastal View at Shoreham’ c.1828
Folio 6 Recto:
Coastal View at Shoreham c.1828
D21862
Turner Bequest CCXXXVII 6
Pencil on white wove paper, 71 x 88 mm
Inscribed in red ink ‘6’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘CCXXXVII – 6’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Ian Warrell has identified this work as one of several depicting the coast at Shoreham in Sussex; it therefore has no relation to Turner’s 1828–9 tour of France and Italy.1 It features a rough stretch of coastline, inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, which spills over from the study of a pier and lighthouse on folio 5 verso opposite (D21861).
The studies identified by Warrell as Shoreham in the present sketchbook appear on folios 5 verso, 6 recto and 62 verso–66 verso (D21861, D21862, D21964–D21972). Regarding the timing of the sketches, Warrell debated whether they perhaps recorded a visit just before Turner’s 1828 departure for Italy,2 although he also conceded ‘it is not impossible that the Shoreham sketches [...] could actually date from 1826.’3

Hannah Kaspar
December 2024

1
Warrell 1997, p.212.
2
Ibid, p.171.
3
Ibid, p.212.

How to cite

Hannah Kaspar, ‘Coastal View at Shoreham c.1828’, catalogue entry, December 2024, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, February 2025, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/coastal-view-at-shoreham-r1210420, accessed 15 April 2025.