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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country 1811 > Devonshire Coast, No.1 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Beach and Cliffs, Possibly near Teignmouth 1811

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Beach and Cliffs, Possibly near Teignmouth’ 1811
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 75 Verso:
A Beach and Cliffs, Possibly near Teignmouth 1811
D08507
Turner Bequest CXXIII 72a
Pencil on white wove printing paper, 75 x 117 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The view is unidentified, but comes at the conclusion of a sequence of sketches made in the area of Dawlish and Teignmouth, and may show somewhere along the same stretch of Devon coast. For other views of Teignmouth see under folio 71 verso (D08499; CXXIII 68a).

Matthew Imms
June 2011

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Beach and Cliffs, Possibly near Teignmouth 1811 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 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-a-beach-and-cliffs-possibly-near-teignmouth-r1136984, accessed 13 May 2024.