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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Brighton, with Buildings and the Chain Pier c.1824

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 28 Recto:
Brighton, with Buildings and the Chain Pier c.1824
D18356
Turner Bequest CCX 28
Pencil on white wove paper, 75 x 118 mm
Watermarked ‘[Smith &] Allnutt | [18] 22’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘W’ top centre towards right
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘28’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCX 28’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These sketches depict aspects of the city of Brighton on the English Channel coast. Turner has rendered two separate drawings of the Regency townhouses on the Front as well as a small jotting of the then recently erected Chain Pier.
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:
Blank.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Brighton, with Buildings and the Chain Pier 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-buildings-and-the-chain-pier-r1181241, accessed 28 March 2024.