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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Coast with Cliffs, Distant Shipping and Ruins in the Foreground c.1809-10

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
A Coast with Cliffs, Distant Shipping and Ruins in the Foreground circa 1809–10
D09006
Turner Bequest CXXVII 29
Pencil on white wove paper, 125 x 202 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘29’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXXVII 29’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
As set out in the Introduction, this sketchbook contains identified views of Cumbria and Sussex. This view of ruins overlooking the sea below cliffs has yet to be associated with certainty with either county.
Technical notes:
This is one of a few single leaves which, with a greater number of loose bifolio sheets, constitute the so-called Sandycombe and Yorkshire sketchbook. The folded sheets were not bound, but placed inside each other in a sequence which is not entirely recoverable (see the sketchbook’s Introduction for a suggested order).
Verso:
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Matthew Imms
January 2012

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Coast with Cliffs, Distant Shipping and Ruins in the Foreground c.1809–10 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2012, 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-a-coast-with-cliffs-distant-shipping-and-ruins-in-the-r1134717, accessed 29 March 2024.