Joseph Mallord William Turner

Whitby

1801

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: Helmsley Sketchbook
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 112 × 162 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D02470
Turner Bequest LIII 7

Catalogue entry

With the page turned horizontally, showing a more distant view from the same direction as that on folio 6 recto (D02469), this is one of three views of Whitby taken from similar viewpoints in the Inner Harbour; see also folio 8 recto (D02471). Gerald Wilkinson thought that the style of this drawing was consistent with its (and the rest of the sketchbook’s) having been executed on Turner’s previous visit to the north–east, in 1797.1

For other views of Whitby in this book, see under D02469.

See Wilkinson 1972, p.109.

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Andrew Wilton
May 2013

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