J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Second Italian Tour 1828-9 > Roman and French Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Coastal Views of Shoreham, with Moored Boats c.1828

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Coastal Views of Shoreham, with Moored Boats’ c.1828
Folio 66 Recto:
Coastal Views of Shoreham, with Moored Boats c.1828
D21971
Turner Bequest CCXXXVII 66
Pencil on white wove paper, 71 x 88 mm
Inscribed in red ink ‘66’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXXXVII – 66’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Ian Warrell has identified this work as one of several depicting the coast at Shoreham in Sussex; it therefore has no relation to Turner’s 1828–9 tour of France and Italy.1 The upper view of coastal buildings, ramparts and moored boats extends onto folio 65 verso opposite (D21970); the square tower of the St Mary de Haura Church is seen in the distance here. Beneath is a further rough outline of coastal buildings.
The studies identified by Warrell as Shoreham in the present sketchbook appear on folios 5 verso, 6 recto and 62 verso–66 verso (D21861, D21862, D21964–D21972). Regarding the timing of the sketches, Warrell debated whether they perhaps recorded a visit to Shoreham just before Turner’s 1828 departure for Italy,2 although he also conceded ‘it is not impossible that the Shoreham sketches [...] could actually date from 1826.’3

Hannah Kaspar
December 2024

1
Warrell 1997, p.212.
2
Ibid, p.171.
3
Ibid, p.212.

How to cite

Hannah Kaspar, ‘Coastal Views of Shoreham, with Moored Boats c.1828’, catalogue entry, December 2024, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, February 2025, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/coastal-views-of-shoreham-with-moored-boats-r1210529, accessed 02 August 2025.