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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Above Hastings, Looking Towards Beachy Head c.1806-10

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 91 Recto:
Above Hastings, Looking Towards Beachy Head circa 1806–10
D05708
Turner Bequest XCI 91
Pencil on cream wove paper, prepared with a buff wash, 128 x 201 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘91’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XCI 91’ bottom left, descending vertically
Blind-stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram, bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The identification of Hastings is correctly given by Edward Croft-Murray in pencil annotations to a copy of Finberg now in Tate’s Library. There is a more perfunctory view on the verso (D05709) and a similar one on folio 92 of the sketchbook (D05710).
The leaf is stained, and repaired at upper left.

David Blayney Brown
March 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Above Hastings, Looking Towards Beachy Head 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-above-hastings-looking-towards-beachy-head-r1131019, accessed 25 April 2024.