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 > Brighton and Arundel Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Brighton, with the Chain Pier in Distance c.1824

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Brighton, with the Chain Pier in Distance’ c.1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 27 Recto:
Brighton, with the Chain Pier in Distance c.1824
D18355
Turner Bequest CCX 27
Pencil on white wove paper, 75 x 118 mm
Watermarked ‘[Smith &] Allnutt | [18] 22’
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘27’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCX 27’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a view of the beachfront at Brighton with the newly erected Chain Pier in the distance. There is a separate sketch of some of the Regency townhouses with line the Front above the principal drawing.
For further sketches of Brighton in this book see Tate D18343–D18350, D18353–D18365, D18369–D18371; Turner Bequest CCX 20a–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).
Verso:
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Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Brighton, with the Chain Pier in Distance 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-brighton-with-the-chain-pier-in-distance-r1181240, accessed 18 April 2024.