Joseph Mallord William Turner

Coastline at ?Kessingland, Suffolk

c.1824

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 118 × 115 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D18249
Turner Bequest CCIX 47 a

Catalogue entry

These cursory sketches depict the coastline at Kessingland (inscribed ‘Kissingland’ by Turner) on the Suffolk North Sea coast. Turner renders the cliffs and beach here as well as Kessingland’s Church of Saint Edmund.

Alice Rylance-Watson
January 2015

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