'Coastline of Belgium', Joseph Mallord William Turner | Tate

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Coastline of Belgium

From Shipwreck (1) Sketchbook

Turner Bequest LXXXVII

Date c.1806-10

Dimensionssupport: 118 x 185 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D05405

Turner Bequest LXXXVII 30

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 10 Verso:

Coastline of Belgium circa 1806–10

D05405
Turner Bequest LXXXVII 30

Pencil on cream laid paper, 118 x 185 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘30’ top right, inverted
Stamped in black ‘LXXXVII 30’ top right, inverted

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

Drawn with the sketchbook inverted and continued on folio 11 of this sketchbook (D05406; Turner Bequest LXXXVII 31), which Turner inscribed ‘Flushing’ and ‘Ostend’, this is a panoramic view of the coastline seen from offshore. Assuming the drawing dates from the same time as the others in the sketchbook, Turner must have made a trip across the North Sea to within sight of the shore despite the restrictions of the Napoleonic War.

David Blayney Brown
December 2005

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

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Context

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Sketchbooks

1802-18 Academician and professor

Sketchbooks from the 1800s

Shipwreck (1) Sketchbook

Tate Collection

Gifts and bequests

Turner Bequest