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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Views of the Coast: Sheppey; and Queenborough, Sheerness and the River Medway c.1805-9

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 61 Recto:
Two Views of the Coast: Sheppey; and Queenborough, Sheerness and the River Medway circa 1805–9
D06455
Turner Bequest XCIX 57
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 115 x 190 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘57’ bottom left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘XCIX 57’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted. Finberg’s title is misleading as this motif, together with a horizon line below, extend the views of Sheppey and the Thames shore on folio 60 verso (D06454; Turner Bequest XCIX 56a), for which see comment.

David Blayney Brown
March 2009

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Two Views of the Coast: Sheppey; and Queenborough, Sheerness and the River Medway c.1805–9 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2009, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-two-views-of-the-coast-sheppey-and-queenborough-sheerness-r1130651, accessed 29 March 2024.