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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Study of Kit's Coty House Dolmen 1796-7

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Study of Kit's Coty House Dolmen’ 1796-7
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 30 Recto:
Study of Kit’s Coty House Dolmen 1796–7
D01178
Turner Bequest XXXVII 61
Pencil with black and white chalk on blue laid wrapping paper prepared with a red-brown wash, 93 x 113 mm
Stamped in black ‘XXXVII – 61’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The megalithic dolmen structure (formerly at the core of a burial mound) known as Kit’s Coty House still stands, surrounded by railings, in a field near Aylesford, Kent; Little Kit’s Coty House, nearby, has long been reduced to a collapsed jumble of stones. Turner’s sketch was made with the page turned horizontally.

Andrew Wilton
September 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Study of Kit’s Coty House Dolmen 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-study-of-kits-coty-house-dolmen-r1149868, accessed 20 September 2024.