Joseph Mallord William Turner

Lowestoft Lighthouse

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: 115 × 118 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D18227
Turner Bequest CCIX 36 a

Catalogue entry

Produced with the sketchbook turned upside down, here Turner has rendered a view of Lowestoft on the Suffolk North Sea coast. The lighthouse is shown near the cliff’s edge overlooking the Denes. See also Tate D18335; Turner Bequest CCIX 35a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
January 2015

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