Marine Views (1818-24)
In 1822, Turner was commissioned to produce watercolours for a topographical print series entitled Marine Views, which was to include scenes from around the coast of Britain, to be translated into mezzotint. Turner contributed seven of his finest watercolour drawings for reproduction. However, largely due to a breakdown in relations between Turner and the publisher, W.B. Cooke, only two were ultimately published. One of these was the dramatic night scene of The Eddystone Lighthouse, showing the treacherous Plymouth coast.

The other works in this section include preparatory studies in watercolour and pencil related to the other designs which were never published. They include three sets of ship studies executed in pencil and reunited for the first time since Turner's death as one complete sheet of paper. (They were separated by John Ruskin who probably intended to include the more legible of them in the first displays of the Turner Bequest at the National Gallery, London in the late 1850s.)