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 Cliffs on a Channel Coast 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Cliffs on a Channel Coast’ 1845
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 81 Verso:
Cliffs on a Channel Coast 1845
D35631
Turner Bequest CCCLXI 81a
Pencil on white wove paper, 86 x 111 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, there are three studies of cliffs and distant buildings, presumably on a Channel coast. There may be a brief inscription over the skyline towards the bottom left. See the sketchbook’s Introduction for the many slight coastal views scattered through it.

Matthew Imms
September 2016

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Cliffs on a Channel Coast 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-cliffs-on-a-channel-coast-r1184047, accessed 26 April 2024.