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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Lighthouse on the Coast, Seen from the Sea 1834

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Lighthouse on the Coast, Seen from the Sea’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 74 Verso:
Lighthouse on the Coast, Seen from the Sea 1834
D26236
Turner Bequest CCLXVIII 74a
Pencil on white wove paper, 92 x 111 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch, drawn along the top of a torn page, depicts a lighthouse on a cliff as seen from the sea. It belongs to a group of sketches of the coast from the sea, made by Turner as he travelled south along the east coast from Edinburgh to London (folios 70 verso–77 verso; D26228–D26242).

Thomas Ardill
January 2011

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Lighthouse on the Coast, Seen from the Sea 1834 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 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-lighthouse-on-the-coast-seen-from-the-sea-r1136164, accessed 25 April 2024.