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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Scotland 1818-20 > Scotch Antiquities Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Coast of Dunbar 1818

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Coast of Dunbar’ 1818
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 32 Verso:
Coast of Dunbar 1818
D13637
Turner Bequest CLXVII 31a
Pencil on white wove paper, 112 x 186 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This ‘View along the Coast’, as Finberg described it,1 looks west along the East Lothian coast towards Dunbar at the right of folio 33 (D13638; CLXVII 31b). At the top left of the present page is a church on a hill with a steeple with gothic-style pinnacles at its corners and a spire. Beneath this in the foreground are several long buildings near the shore and at the right we look along a relatively built-up part of the coast with more buildings and another spire on the horizon.
There is a pink smudge at the top left of the page transferred from Ruskin’s red ink inscription on the opposite page.

Thomas Ardill
March 2008

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Finberg 1909, I, p.485, CLXVII 31a.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Coast of Dunbar 1818 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2008, 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-coast-of-dunbar-r1132185, accessed 02 April 2026.