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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Margate and Life Drawing c.1830-40 > Gravesend and Margate Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Coastal Terrain, ?Kent c.1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Coastal Terrain, ?Kent’ c.1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 27 Verso:
Coastal Terrain, ?Kent c.1832
D27316
Turner Bequest CCLXXIX 27a
Pencil on white wove paper, 86 x 206 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled this page with a study of buildings in a coastal terrain. For more on the landscape sketches in this volume, see the sketchbook introduction.

John Chu
March 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Coastal Terrain, ?Kent c.1832 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-coastal-terrain-kent-r1181452, accessed 07 May 2025.