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 ?Dover Castle and Cliffs 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Dover Castle and Cliffs’ 1845
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 100 Verso:
?Dover Castle and Cliffs 1845
D35668
Turner Bequest CCCLXI 100a
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 86 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned vertically, there are two swift studies of what may be Dover Castle above the Channel cliffs. For other views of Dover on adjacent pages, see under folio 20 verso (D35523).

Matthew Imms
September 2016

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘?Dover Castle and Cliffs 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-dover-castle-and-cliffs-r1184083, accessed 26 April 2024.