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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Coastal View ?at Brighton c.1824

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 17 Verso:
Coastal View ?at Brighton c.1824
D18340
Turner Bequest CCX 17a
Pencil on white wove paper, 75 x 118 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
In this cursory view Turner pictures the seafront of a coastal town. The location is probably Brighton, with the Chain Pier rendered in the distance (see Tate D18335, D18343, D18345, D18355, D24836, N02064; Turner Bequest CCX 14a, 20, 21, 27, CCLIX 271).
For further sketches of Brighton in this book see Tate D18344, D18347–D18350, D18353–D18365, D18369–D18371; Turner Bequest CCX 20a, 22–23a, 25a–33a, 35a–36a. See also Turner’s design Brighthelmstone, produced for Cooke’s Picturesque Views of the Southern Coast of England and published in 1825 (Tate impression T05289 and Tate D18469; Turner Bequest CCX 88).

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Coastal View ?at Brighton c.1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 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-coastal-view-at-brighton-r1181225, accessed 25 April 2024.