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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Coastline; Figures and Boats; and the Continuation of a Sketch of Carlisle 1831

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Coastline; Figures and Boats; and the Continuation of a Sketch of Carlisle’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 43 Recto:
Coastline; Figures and Boats; and the Continuation of a Sketch of Carlisle 1831
D25845
Turner Bequest CCLXVI 43
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 187 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by John Ruskin ‘43’ bottom left inverted and ‘342’ top left inverted
Stamped in black ‘CCLXVI 40’ top left inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook in its usual orientation there are two sketches of a coastline with cliffs, and a sketch of two figures with a boat. With the sketchbook inverted is the continuation of a sketch of Carlisle (see folio 42 verso; D25844) showing one of the towers of the Citadel on this page.
For further sketches of Carlisle in this sketchbook see folio 39 verso (D25838).

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Coastline; Figures and Boats; and the Continuation of a Sketch of Carlisle 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 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-coastline-figures-and-boats-and-the-continuation-of-a-sketch-r1134212, accessed 18 April 2024.