Joseph Mallord William Turner

Cliffs ?near Whitby, with a Vessel at Sea in the Left Distance

1801

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Dunbar Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 115 x 164 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D02759
Turner Bequest LIV 90

Catalogue entry

Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this is a continuation of the drawing on folio 89 verso opposite (D02758). A long sequence of sketches on the Yorkshire coast between Scarborough and Whitby runs between folios 83 verso and 98 verso (D02746–D02776).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Study of Clouds over the Sea, with a Sailing Vessel in the Distance’ 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Dunstanburgh Castle: The Ruins Seen above a Cliff with the Sea in the Foreground’ ?1798

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