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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Cliffs on the Coast; ?Walmer Castle 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 5 Verso:
Cliffs on the Coast; ?Walmer Castle 1845
D35343
Turner Bequest CCCLV 5a
Pencil on blue wove paper, 186 x 70 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘C[?astle]’ centre left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The bottom three sketches of cliffs are inverted relative to the foliation and are continued on folio 6 recto opposite (D35344). Turner has roughly outlined the formations of the terrain at the top of the cliffs, perhaps also suggesting a church spire in the distance in the first two drawings. Above the cliff sketches are rather indistinct pencil marks, possibly separate landscapes or continuations from the sketches of Walmer Castle on the opposite page. Turner has inscribed what appears to be the word ‘Castle’ in pencil towards the middle and close to the gutter of the page.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Cliffs on the Coast; ?Walmer Castle 1845 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, June 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-cliffs-on-the-coast-walmer-castle-r1142174, accessed 25 April 2024.