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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Kent Coast and Whaling c.1844-5 > Hythe and Walmer Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Cliffs on the Coast 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Cliffs on the Coast’ 1845
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 4 Recto:
Cliffs on the Coast 1845
D35340
Turner Bequest CCCLV 4
Pencil on blue wove paper, 186 x 70 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘4’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘CCCLV–4’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The sketches on this page are inverted relative to the foliation. The drawings continue across the opposite page, folio 3 verso (D35339), depicting sections of a cliff coastline. Turner has rendered the contours and some of the surface texture of the cliffs with swift, abbreviated strokes of the pencil.
Technical notes:
Incidental traces of chalk appear to be unrelated to the drawing.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Cliffs on the Coast 1845 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, June 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-cliffs-on-the-coast-r1142171, accessed 24 April 2024.