Joseph Mallord William Turner

To rich colouristic effect, this sketch shows a lighthouse, presumably the one at Dieppe harbour,1 lit up against a stormy or, as Finberg thought, evening sky.2 The churning, yellowy-grey sea and the impression of disturbance in the sky’s mixture of wet and dry lead-grey brush-work evoke a distinctive littoral meteorology.

For reasons set out in the Technical notes in the sketchbook Introduction, this work appears inverted in relation to the volume as foliated.

Verso:

Blank; except for patches of watercolour transference and brush-strokes continued from folio 16 recto opposite (D35475; Turner Bequest CCCLX 17).