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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Five Views of Dover from the Sea 1820

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Five Views of Dover from the Sea’ 1820
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 105 Verso:
Five Views of Dover from the Sea 1820
D16887
Turner Bequest CXCIII 104 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 115 x 94 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘N’ and ‘S’ within second sketch from the bottom
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The final leg of Turner’s return journey from Italy took him from Calais to Dover, arriving back in London on 1 February 1820. The sketches on this page represent five views of Dover seen from the sea, some of the compositions of which spill over onto the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, see folio 106 (D16888; Turner Bequest CXCIII 105). They include three studies of the castle drawn at intervals on the approach towards the port, the sharp silhouette of Shakespeare’s cliff seen from the east (second from top), and a general view of the coastline (second from bottom) which the artist has annotated ‘N[orth]’ and ‘S[outh]’.

Nicola Moorby
March 2011

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Five Views of Dover from the Sea 1820 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-five-views-of-dover-from-the-sea-r1138662, accessed 20 April 2024.