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 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Cliffs’ 1845
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 10 Verso:
Cliffs 1845
D35353
Turner Bequest CCCLV 10a
Chalk and pencil on blue wove paper, 70 x 186 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner has produced the larger of the two drawings with the page turned horizontally. The other small drawing of a cliff is positioned at the top of the page in accordance with the foliation. An emboldened inverted ‘L’ shaped line connected to this first sketch seems to form the headland of another small sketch of a cliff which extends onto folio 11 recto (D35354). The smaller of the two sketches is loosely drawn with blunt pencil to provide the briefest of pictorial notations of a further cliff view.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Cliffs 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-r1142184, accessed 20 April 2024.