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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Chalk Cliffs; ?Looking towards Folkestone c.1816-19

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Chalk Cliffs; ?Looking towards Folkestone’ c.1816-19
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 38 Verso:
Chalk Cliffs; ?Looking towards Folkestone circa 1816–19
D10475
Turner Bequest CXL 34a
Pencil on white wove paper, 155 x 95 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Chalk’ lower right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Continued on folio 39 of the sketchbook (D10476; Turner Bequest CXL 35).There are two sketches, a slight outline of coastline across the top of these two leaves, and below a slightly more detailed sketch of chalk cliffs, probably near Shakespeare Cliff looking towards Folkestone. See also the verso and folios 37 (D10474, D10473; Turner Bequest CXL 34a, 33a) for more views near Shakespeare Cliff.

David Blayney Brown
July 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Chalk Cliffs; ?Looking towards Folkestone c.1816–19 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2011, 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-chalk-cliffs-looking-towards-folkestone-r1131465, accessed 24 April 2024.