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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Strips of Kent Coast: Reculver and Herne Bay c.1805-9

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Strips of Kent Coast: Reculver and Herne Bay’ c.1805-9
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 65 Verso:
Two Strips of Kent Coast: Reculver and Herne Bay circa 1805–9
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Turner Bequest XCIX 61a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 115 x 190 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Herne Hearne Bay’ below top image, right, and ‘Reculver’ below bottom image, left of centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted. In his view of Reculver, Turner shows the twin towers of the twelfth-century church (built in the ruins of a Roman fort) surmounted by tall spires. Most of the church was demolished in 1809 but the towers were retained with reduced versions of the spires and maintained by Trinity House as a navigational aid.

David Blayney Brown
March 2009

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Two Strips of Kent Coast: Reculver and Herne Bay c.1805–9 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2009, 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-two-strips-of-kent-coast-reculver-and-herne-bay-r1130660, accessed 16 April 2024.