Joseph Mallord William Turner

Cliffs and Buildings on a Channel Coast

1845

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Dieppe and Kent Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 111 × 86 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D35621
Turner Bequest CCCLXI 76 a

Catalogue entry

This page contains a number of overlapping sketches. With the page turned vertically a tower is seen on a cliff or headland with a small boat in the foreground. With the page inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, there is a larger outline view of what may be the same building, and a smaller sketch of a building in a setting which continues on folio 77 recto opposite (D35622).
These subjects are presumably on a Channel coast. See the sketchbook’s Introduction for the many slight coastal views scattered through it.

Matthew Imms
September 2016

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