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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Looking out to Sea from the Shore 1796

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Looking out to Sea from the Shore’ 1796
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 90 Verso:
Looking out to Sea from the Shore 1796
D00833
Turner Bequest XXX 89a
Watercolour and gouache on blue laid paper, 108 x 126 mm
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this is the only drawing that might attract criticism for the perfunctoriness that Finberg saw in the whole sketchbook (see the Introduction). It is one of the least sensitive of all Turner’s observations of the sea.

Andrew Wilton
May 2011

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Looking out to Sea from the Shore 1796 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-looking-out-to-sea-from-the-shore-r1149782, accessed 19 April 2024.