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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Rocks on the Coast ?at Dunbar 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Rocks on the Coast ?at Dunbar’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 63 Verso:
Rocks on the Coast ?at Dunbar 1801
D02707
Turner Bequest LIV 63a
Pencil and scraping-out on white wove paper prepared with a mauve-pink ground, 115 x 164 mm
Stamped in black with Turner Bequest monogram top right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, the subject is continued on folio 64 recto opposite (D02708). This is one of a series of drawings of Dunbar between folios 61 verso and 70 verso (D02703–D02720).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Rocks on the Coast ?at Dunbar 1801 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-rocks-on-the-coast-at-dunbar-r1178893, accessed 26 April 2024.