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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > East Anglia, Sussex and Yorkshire 1824 > Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Sketches on the Yarmouth Coast c.1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sketches on the Yarmouth Coast’ c.1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 23 Recto:
Sketches on the Yarmouth Coast c.1824
D18200
Turner Bequest CCIX 23
Pencil on white wove paper, 115 x 118 mm
Watermarked ‘al[lee] | 18[19]’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘[?Light h]’ centre left, ‘[?Pink]’ | ‘Sky’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These cursory and swiftly rendered sketches depict scenes on the coast at Yarmouth, Norfolk. The uppermost view shows fishermen surrounding a small, beached vessel with what appears to be a cart to its left. At centre Turner pictures the same view as is recorded on the folio opposite (Tate D18199; Turner Bequest CCIX 22a), this time from further away. The lowermost prospect is a sea view with a boat moored at shore and an expansive sky filled with ‘Pink’ light and fast-moving clouds.

Alice Rylance-Watson
January 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Sketches on the Yarmouth Coast c.1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-sketches-on-the-yarmouth-coast-r1181082, accessed 26 April 2024.