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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Kent Coast and Whaling c.1844-5 > Hythe and Walmer Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Cliffs on the Coast 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Cliffs on the Coast’ 1845
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 4 Verso:
Cliffs on the Coast 1845
D35341
Turner Bequest CCCLV 4a
Pencil on blue wove paper, 186 x 70 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘[?Tul...] R’ towards top right, ‘[...]’ above centre, ‘R[?y]’ centre right, ‘[...]’ towards bottom left.
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The sketches on this page are inverted relative to the foliation. They continue on the opposite page, folio 5 recto (D35342), depicting sections of a cliff coastline. Turner’s employs rough hatching to indicate the uneven contours of the cliffs and the beach formations which surround them. Punctuating the sketches are some rather indecipherable inscriptions, possibly referencing sites or place names in shorthand.
Technical notes:
Apparently adventitious white chalk markings appear around the centre of the page.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Cliffs on the Coast 1845 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, June 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-cliffs-on-the-coast-r1142172, accessed 25 April 2024.