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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > East Sussex c.1806-20 > Richmond Hill; Hastings to Margate ... > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Winchelsea from the South c.1816-19

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Winchelsea from the South’ c.1816-19
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 73 Verso:
Winchelsea from the South circa 1816–19
D10539
Turner Bequest CXL 66a
Pencil on white wove paper, 155 x 95 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Winchelsea’ top centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch, very hastily annotated, was made looking towards Winchelsea from the south, perhaps as Turner approached from the direction of Hastings.

David Blayney Brown
July 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Winchelsea from the South 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-winchelsea-from-the-south-r1131533, accessed 18 April 2024.