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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Three Sketches of a Coastline or Islands near Møn 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three Sketches of a Coastline or Islands near Møn’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 7 Verso:
Three Sketches of a Coastline or Islands near Møn 1835
D30834
Turner Bequest CCCV 7 a
Pencil on glazed white wove hand-coated card, 92 x 155 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘[?Sleger]’ centre, ‘[...]’ centre right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These sketches show coastline or islands in Denmark. Over four hundred islands comprise the Danish archipelago, some of which Turner would have seen as he sailed from Kiel in Germany to Copenhagen. The inscription ‘Sleger’ may well refer to Stege, the largest town on the island of Møn (see Tate D30830–D30832; Turner Bequest CCCV 5a–6a).

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Three Sketches of a Coastline or Islands near Møn 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-three-sketches-of-a-coastline-or-islands-near-mon-r1187212, accessed 21 May 2024.