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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Coastal Scene ?near Dunkirk 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Coastal Scene ?near Dunkirk’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 190 Recto:
Coastal Scene ?near Dunkirk 1824
D19918
Turner Bequest CCXVI 184
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘184’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–184’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These swiftly dashed off sketches may depict coastline on the northern French coast, near Dunkirk (see Tate D19917; Turner Bequest CCXVI 183 a). There are two views, both produced with the sketchbook orientated horizontally, with each positioned inversely to one another. The profile of a tower, probably the Tour du Leughenaer can be seen in one of the views.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Coastal Scene ?near Dunkirk 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-coastal-scene-near-dunkirk-r1174713, accessed 08 May 2025.