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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Coastal Scenes and Shipping c.1820-45 > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Beach c.1820-30

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Beach’ c.1820-30
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Beach c.1820–30
D25395
Turner Bequest CCLXIII 272
Watercolour on white wove paper, 191 x 273 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘272’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXIII – 272’ bottom right
Blind stamped with Turner Bequest monogram centre
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is one of a large number of sketches on loose sheets of paper depicting coastal terrain and seagoing vessels in various combinations. For the grouping and dating of these works to the middle and later periods of Turner’s career, see the section introduction. This sheet was cut from a much larger sheet, some of the other sections of which Turner specialist Eric Shanes has located in the Turner Bequest.1 These are: D25346–D25348 (Turner Bequest CCLXIII 224–226). Each section bears a different fragment of the watermark reading ‘T EDMONDS’, ‘1825’, and ‘NOT BLEACHED’.
1
Eric Shanes, Turner’s Watercolour Explorations 1810–1842, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p.40.
Verso:
The verso is attached to the mount.

John Chu
June 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Beach c.1820–30 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-beach-r1182805, accessed 19 April 2024.