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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > East Sussex c.1806-20 > Hastings Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Dover Castle and Cliffs c.1816-18

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Dover Castle and Cliffs’ c.1816-18
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 18 Verso:
Dover Castle and Cliffs circa 1816–18
D10363
Turner Bequest CXXXIX 18a
Pencil on white wove paper, 129 x 205 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted, and continued to include Dover Castle on folio 19 (D10364). The view is from the cliffs, looking out to sea. Dover is the most easterly place marked on the sketch map of the South Coast inside the back cover (D40834).

David Blayney Brown
May 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Dover Castle and Cliffs c.1816–18 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 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-dover-castle-and-cliffs-r1131591, accessed 20 April 2024.