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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Buildings and Coastline at ?Dover c.1828

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Buildings and Coastline at ?Dover’ c.1828
Folio 12 Recto:
Buildings and Coastline at ?Dover c.1828
D21873
Turner Bequest CCXXXVII 12
Pencil on white wove paper, 71 x 88 mm
Inscribed in red ink ‘12’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXXXVII – 12’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page features three rough outlines of coastal buildings, the lower of which includes cliffs beyond. As proposed by Finberg in his 1909 Inventory of the Bequest, the location is possibly Dover.1

Hannah Kaspar
December 2024

1
Finberg 1909, II, p.725.

How to cite

Hannah Kaspar, ‘Buildings and Coastline at ?Dover 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/buildings-and-coastline-at-dover-r1210431, accessed 15 April 2025.