Joseph Mallord William Turner

Cliffs, Probably at Folkestone

1845

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Ideas of Folkestone Sketchbook
Medium
Watercolour on paper
Dimensions
Support: 230 × 328 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D35375
Turner Bequest CCCLVI 14 a

Catalogue entry

Turner has produced this pencil drawing with the sketchbook turned upside down relative to the foliation. This is a rough marking out of the profile of a cliff and surrounding topography produced with rapid, summary handling. What appears to be the number ‘70’ or ‘170’ has been inscribed towards the top right, above a scribbled pencil mark.
Technical notes:
Some of the watercolour from folio 15 recto (D35376) has offset onto the page.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2013

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