Joseph Mallord William Turner

Shoreham Harbour, West Sussex

1826

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Loose Studies of Northern France
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 231 × 367 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D34558
Turner Bequest CCCXLIV 175

Catalogue entry

These sketches belong to a group of views of the West Sussex town of Shoreham which Turner worked onto white ‘Ivy Mill’ watermarked paper as he embarked on his 1826 tour of Northern France.1 A list of these is provided in the Introduction to this section.
1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p.23.
Technical Note:
The sheet is one quarter of a larger sheet folded into four. On the other three quadrants feature D34556, D34557, D34559 (Turner Bequest CCCXLIV d 173; CCCXLIV d 174; CCCXLIV d 176).
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John Chu
March 2016

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