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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Breakwater at Berwick-upon-Tweed 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Breakwater at Berwick-upon-Tweed’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 40 Verso:
A Breakwater at Berwick-upon-Tweed 1831
D25995
Turner Bequest CCLXVII 40a
Pencil on off-white wove writing paper, 113 x 185 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg regarded the slight marks on this page as a continuation of the sketch of a breakwater on folio 41 (D25996; CCLXVII 41).1 However, it is hard to decipher very much meaning from these few pencil marks, which may represent the edge of the cliff.
For more information on Turner’s visit to Berwick see folio 48 verso (D26009; CCLXVII 48a).

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

1
Finberg 1909, II, p.858.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘A Breakwater at Berwick-upon-Tweed 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 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-a-breakwater-at-berwick-upon-tweed-r1134365, accessed 26 April 2024.