'Hastings from the Stade', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Hastings from the Stade

From Hastings Sketchbook

Turner Bequest CXXXIX

Date c.1816-18

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 129 x 205 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D10378

Turner Bequest CXXXIX 26

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 26 Recto:

Hastings from the Stade circa 1816–18

D10378
Turner Bequest CXXXIX 26

Pencil on white wove paper, 129 x 205 mm
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in blue ink ‘26’ bottom left, inverted and ‘315’ top left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CXXXIX 26’ top left, inverted

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

Drawn with the sketchbook inverted, and continued on folio 25 verso (D10377), for which see catalogue note. There is a trace of yellow watercolour at top left.

For views of Hastings in this sketchbook see notes to folio 2 verso (D10371).

Verso:

Blank

David Blayney Brown
May 2011

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