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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Bay with Cliffs beyond a Town, and a White-Sailed Ship: ?Margate 1796-7

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Bay with Cliffs beyond a Town, and a White-Sailed Ship: ?Margate’ 1796-7
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 14 Verso:
A Bay with Cliffs beyond a Town, and a White-Sailed Ship: ?Margate 1796–7
D01145
Turner Bequest XXXVII 28
Gouache on blue laid wrapping paper prepared with a red-brown wash, 113 x 93 mm
Stamped in black ‘XXXVII – 28’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The composition continues across folio 15 recto opposite (D01146; Turner Bequest XXXVII 29). This is apparently a view of Margate, seen from the west. It is the view that confronts modern visitors as they leave the railway station. Turner reconsidered the subject in a watercolour for the Picturesque Views in England and Wales (Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry),1 engraved by Robert Wallis in 1832.

Andrew Wilton
September 2012

1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.398 no.839, reproduced.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Bay with Cliffs beyond a Town, and a White-Sailed Ship: ?Margate 1796–7 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2012, 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-a-bay-with-cliffs-beyond-a-town-and-a-white-sailed-ship-r1149837, accessed 26 April 2024.