In Tate Britain
Prints and Drawings Room
View by appointment- Artist
- Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
- Part of
- Margate Beach Scenes
- Medium
- Watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 191 × 290 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
- Reference
- D25354
Turner Bequest CCLXIII 232
Display caption
Turner’s late watercolour studies of the sea rarely include figures. These four works include the briefest indication of people walking or paddling on the shore. But the reduction of the figures to abstract marks seems to emphasise, rather than dispel, the bleak and lonely nature of these scenes.
Gallery label, July 2008
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