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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Autumn Tour of Northern France 1845 > Dieppe and Kent Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Harbour with a Lighthouse; Boats under Sail; Channel Cliffs 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Harbour with a Lighthouse; Boats under Sail; Channel Cliffs’ 1845
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 77 Verso:
A Harbour with a Lighthouse; Boats under Sail; Channel Cliffs 1845
D35623
Turner Bequest CCCLXI 77a
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 86 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘[?C...d]’ top right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned vertically, at the top is a view of a lighthouse on a quay or pier; below is a jumble of sails as several vessels manoeuvre. At the bottom right, made with the page horizontal, is a continuation of the cliffs and beach, presumably on a Channel coast, which extends across folio 78 recto (D35624). See the sketchbook’s Introduction for the many slight coastal and shipping views scattered through it.

Matthew Imms
September 2016

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Harbour with a Lighthouse; Boats under Sail; Channel Cliffs 1845 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2016, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-harbour-with-a-lighthouse-boats-under-sail-channel-cliffs-r1184039, accessed 09 June 2025.