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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sketch of a Headland c.1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sketch of a Headland’ c.1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 23 Verso:
Sketch of a Headland circa 1819
D13975
Turner Bequest CLXXII 23 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 99 x 155 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The rough, schematic nature of this landscape makes the subject uncertain but it appears to be a sketch of a distant headland with the sea on the right hand side. The location is unidentified, although it may represent an English scene, depicting the same piece of land as the sketch on folio 24 verso (D13977). It may predate the artist’s use of the sketchbook as a notebook relating to his Italian travels in the autumn of 1819.

Nicola Moorby
July 2008

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Sketch of a Headland c.1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2008, 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-sketch-of-a-headland-r1138796, accessed 23 April 2024.