Joseph Mallord William Turner

Above Hastings

c.1806–10

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Herstmonceux and Pevensey Sketchbook
Medium
Chalk and graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 128 × 201 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D05709
Turner Bequest XCI 91 a

Catalogue entry

The identification of Hastings is correctly given by Edward Croft-Murray in pencil annotations to a copy of Finberg now in Tate’s Library. See also the recto (D05708) and folio 92 (D05710).
The leaf is stained.
Verso:
Blank

David Blayney Brown
March 2011

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