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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Cliffs along the Yorkshire Coast 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Cliffs along the Yorkshire Coast’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 90 Verso:
Cliffs along the Yorkshire Coast 1801
D02760
Turner Bequest LIV 90a
Pencil with 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 91 recto opposite (D02761). A long sequence of sketches on the Yorkshire coast between Scarborough and Whitby runs between folios 83 verso and 98 verso (D02746–D02776).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Cliffs along the Yorkshire Coast 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-cliffs-along-the-yorkshire-coast-r1178946, accessed 20 April 2024.