'Coastline; Deal; Walmer Castle; Fishermen', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Coastline; Deal; Walmer Castle; Fishermen

From Richmond Hill; Hastings to Margate Sketchbook

Turner Bequest CXL

Date c.1816-19

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 155 x 95 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D10466

Turner Bequest CXL 30

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 33 Recto:

Coastline; Deal; Walmer Castle; Fishermen circa 1816–19

D10466
Turner Bequest CXL 30

Pencil on white wove paper, 155 x 95 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Walmer Cast[le]’ lower left
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘30’ bottom right, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CXL 30’ bottom left, descending vertically

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

There are five separate sketches here: from the top, a stretch of coastline, another, seemingly at Deal, with signal poles (see also folio 30 verso of the sketchbook, D10461; Turner Bequest CXL 27a), a third perhaps with Walmer Castle to left, the inscribed detail of the castle, and three figures.

David Blayney Brown
July 2011

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.