Joseph Mallord William Turner

Coastal Views at Ostend, with the Lighthouse and a Windmill

1840

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: Würzburg, Rhine and Ostend Sketchbook
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 104 × 170 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D30462
Turner Bequest CCCIII 2

Catalogue entry

There are two drawings here, made with the page turned horizontally both ways. With the gutter at the bottom, the larger view shows the slender lighthouse (since replaced) overlooking the harbour channel, as seen on numerous adjacent pages, and other buildings including a nearby windmill. The other way up is a shore study with waves or dunes in the foreground, perhaps with one or two small, silhouetted figures.

For the numerous Ostend views at this end of the sketchbook, marking the end of Turner’s 1840 tour, see under folio 1 recto (D30460),1 which includes small studies with the lighthouse against the sunset.

See also Powell 1995, pp.72, 82 note 71, 246.

Technical notes:

For discussion of the watermark, see the overall technical notes in the sketchbook’s Introduction.1

Matthew Imms
September 2018

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