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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > French Tour 1821 > Paris, Seine and Dieppe Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner The South Downs from the Sea 1821

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The South Downs from the Sea’ 1821
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 18 Recto:
The South Downs from the Sea 1821
D18551
Turner Bequest CCXI 18
Pencil on white wove paper, 189 x 113 mm
Stamped in black ‘CCXI – 18’ top right running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Rather than ‘distant hills’ as Finberg suggested, the two sketches on this page look more like coastal cliffs. Considering the identification of similar looking sketches in this book (Tate D18546 and D18561; Turner Bequest CCXI 14a, 25), these are likely to be views of the South Downs near Seaford and Beachy Head, made from the sea as Turner sailed from Brighton to Dieppe.

Thomas Ardill
February 2013

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘The South Downs from the Sea 1821 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, August 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-south-downs-from-the-sea-r1146247, accessed 18 April 2024.