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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Kent Coast and Whaling c.1844-5 > Hythe and Walmer Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Figures, Possibly on a Beach 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Figures, Possibly on a Beach’ 1845
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 8 Recto:
Figures, Possibly on a Beach 1845
D35348
Turner Bequest CCCLV 8
Pencil on paper, 70 x 166 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘8’ bottom right inverted, descending
Stamped in black ‘CCCLV–8’ bottom right inverted, descending
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner has produced this drawing with the page turned horizontally. The sketch depicts two roughly drawn figures towards the bottom left. There suggestion of their costume. Simple wavering outlines delineate the profile of land immediately behind the figures, perhaps dunes or low cliffs. There are some very loose vertical features on the skyline.
Technical notes:
The areas of pale red found on folio 7 verso (D35347) continue onto this page. The paper appears to have been rubbed in some places, leaving it a little buckled.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Figures, Possibly on a Beach 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-figures-possibly-on-a-beach-r1142179, accessed 25 April 2024.