'A Coast with Cliffs, Distant Shipping and Ruins in the Foreground', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

A Coast with Cliffs, Distant Shipping and Ruins in the Foreground

From Sandycombe and Yorkshire Sketchbook

Turner Bequest CXXVII

Date c.1809-10

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 125 x 202 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Reference

D09006

Turner Bequest CXXVII 29

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

A Coast with Cliffs, Distant Shipping and Ruins in the Foreground circa 1809–10

D09006
Turner Bequest CXXVII 29

Pencil on white wove paper, 125 x 202 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘29’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXXVII 29’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

As set out in the Introduction, this sketchbook contains identified views of Cumbria and Sussex. This view of ruins overlooking the sea below cliffs has yet to be associated with certainty with either county.

Technical notes:

This is one of a few single leaves which, with a greater number of loose bifolio sheets, constitute the so-called Sandycombe and Yorkshire sketchbook. The folded sheets were not bound, but placed inside each other in a sequence which is not entirely recoverable (see the sketchbook’s Introduction for a suggested order).

Verso:

Blank

Matthew Imms
January 2012

Read this catalogue entry in full

This catalogue entry is part of: David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, December 2012.