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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Autumn Tour of Northern France 1845 > Dieppe and Kent Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Views with Windmills and a Church on a Channel Coast; Figures 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Views with Windmills and a Church on a Channel Coast; Figures’ 1845
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 79 Recto:
Views with Windmills and a Church on a Channel Coast; Figures 1845
D35626
Turner Bequest CCCLXI 79
Pencil on white wove paper, 86 x 111 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Sea’, top left, ‘[?Causeway]’ above centre, and ‘Are you lost’ centre right, descending vertically
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘79’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCLXI – 79’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page has been used three ways, with a study of windmills above the sea, presumably on a Channel coast, at the top, an inverted skyline with a church spire at the bottom and, overlapping these but separated by an emphatic line a quick sketch of a figure or two made with the page turned vertically, above which is inscribed the plaintive phrase ‘Are you lost’.
See the sketchbook’s Introduction for the many slight coastal views scattered through it.

Matthew Imms
September 2016

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Views with Windmills and a Church on a Channel Coast; Figures 1845 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2016, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-views-with-windmills-and-a-church-on-a-channel-coast-figures-r1184042, accessed 26 April 2024.