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 A Harbour and Lighthouse, with Channel Cliffs Beyond; a Coastal View, Possibly near St Leonards-on-Sea 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Harbour and Lighthouse, with Channel Cliffs Beyond; a Coastal View, Possibly near St Leonards-on-Sea’ 1845
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 92 Recto:
A Harbour and Lighthouse, with Channel Cliffs Beyond; a Coastal View, Possibly near St Leonards-on-Sea 1845
D35652
Turner Bequest CCCLXI 92
Pencil on white wove paper, 86 x 111 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘B[... ?S Leonards]’ towards top left
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘92’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCLXI – 92’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
At the top is a coastal view with buildings, under which there may be a note relating to St Leonards-on-Sea, adjacent to Hastings in East Sussex. The drawing continues on folio 91 verso opposite (D35651).
Below, the other way up, is a rapid view of a harbour and cliffs, presumably on a Channel coast; it is also continued on the opposite page, where a lighthouse is seen. See the sketchbook’s Introduction for the many slight coastal views scattered through it.

Matthew Imms
September 2016

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Harbour and Lighthouse, with Channel Cliffs Beyond; a Coastal View, Possibly near St Leonards-on-Sea 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-a-harbour-and-lighthouse-with-channel-cliffs-beyond-a-r1184067, accessed 26 April 2024.