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 The Sun Setting off the Shore 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Sun Setting off the Shore’ 1845
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 10 Recto:
The Sun Setting off the Shore 1845
D35352
Turner Bequest CCCLV 10
Chalk and pencil on blue wove paper, 186 x 70 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘?G[...] R[...]’ top right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘10’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCLV–10’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This drawing continues from folio 9 verso opposite (D35351) with similarly hazy horizontal bands of smudged pencil and chalk to depict the sky and sea in the shimmering evening light. A small circle to the centre right of the composition is solidly filled in with chalk to represent the sun. Beneath it a loose chalk zigzag offers an impression of the sun’s reflection on the water. There are some rough markings towards the bottom of the composition; presumably a continuation of the group of figures found on the opposite page.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Sun Setting off the Shore 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-the-sun-setting-off-the-shore-r1142183, accessed 26 April 2024.