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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > East Sussex c.1806-20 > Hastings Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Brightling Observatory c.1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Brightling Observatory’ c.1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 35 Recto:
Brightling Observatory circa 1816
D10395
Turner Bequest CXXXIX 35
Pencil on white wove paper, 129 x 205 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Wall’ lower right
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in blue ink ‘35’ bottom left, inverted and ‘315’ top left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CXXXIX 35’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted and continued on folio 34 verso (D10394) for which see catalogue entry for the subject and watercolour The Observatory at Rosehill Park, the Seat of John Fuller, Esq. made for Fuller about 1816 (currently untraced)1 and engraved by W.B. Cooke in 1819 for Views in Sussex.

David Blayney Brown
May 2011

1
Wilton 1979, p.348 no.424.

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Brightling Observatory c.1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-brightling-observatory-r1131623, accessed 11 October 2025.