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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Coastal Scenes and Shipping c.1820-45 > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Coastal Terrain after 1825

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Coastal Terrain’ after 1825
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Coastal Terrain after 1825
D25346
Turner Bequest CCLXIII 224
Watercolour and gouache on white wove paper, 192 x 273 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘224’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXIII 224’ bottom right
Blind stamped with Turner Bequest monogram centre
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is one of a large number of sketches on loose sheets of paper depicting coastal terrain and seagoing vessels in various combinations. For the grouping and dating of these works to the middle and later periods of Turner’s career, see the section introduction. This sheet was cut from a much larger sheet, some of the other sections of which Turner specialist Eric Shanes has located in the Turner Bequest.1 These are: Tate D25347, D25348, D25395 (Turner Bequest CCLXIII 225, 226, 272). Each section bears a different fragment of the watermark reading ‘T EDMONDS’, ‘1825’, and ‘NOT BLEACHED’.
1
Eric Shanes, Turner’s Watercolour Explorations 1810–1842, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p.40.
Verso:
Pencil notes reading ‘AB2180PO’ and ‘CCLXIII | 224’. Small patches of blue across the sheet.

John Chu
June 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Coastal Terrain after 1825 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-coastal-terrain-r1182794, accessed 03 November 2025.