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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > East Sussex c.1806-20 > Herstmonceux and Pevensey Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant View of Hastings c.1806-10

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant View of Hastings’ c.1806-10
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 55 Recto:
Distant View of Hastings circa 1806–10
D05672
Turner Bequest XCI 55
Pencil on cream wove paper, prepared with a buff wash, 128 x 201 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘55’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XCI 55’ bottom left, descending vertically
Blind-stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram, bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Identified as Winchelsea by Edward Croft-Murray in pencil annotations to a copy of Finberg now in Tate’s Library, this sketch is more likely to show the approaches to Hastings. A similar view with some of the same buildings, identified by Eric Shanes as Hastings from Ore Place, is on folio 56 of the sketchbook (D05673) and there is another from closer up on folio 58 (D05675).
The leaf is splashed with ink or grey wash.
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David Blayney Brown
March 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Distant View of Hastings c.1806–10 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2011, 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-distant-view-of-hastings-r1130983, accessed 19 September 2024.