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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Views of Lowestoft c.1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Views of Lowestoft’ c.1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 42 Verso:
?Views of Lowestoft c.1824
D18239
Turner Bequest CCIX 42a
Pencil on white wove paper, 115 x 118 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘B[...]’ near bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Rendered with the sketchbook turned upside down, here Turner records buildings atop a ridge overlooking the beachfront. A lighthouse and a screw-pile lighthouse are drawn, the latter at top left with a separate detail of its lantern. The location is possibly Lowestoft on the Suffolk coast, which Turner pictured in a vignette design for the East Coast project (Indianapolis Museum of Art, see Tate impression D06613).1 Lowestoft lighthouse is depicted on Tate D18225–D18227; Turner Bequest CCIX 35a–36a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
January 2015

1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.405 no.896.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘?Views of Lowestoft c.1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 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-views-of-lowestoft-r1181121, accessed 05 April 2026.