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
Folio 12 Verso:
Cliffs 1845
D35357
Turner Bequest CCCLV 12a
Chalk and pencil on blue wove paper, 186 x 70 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Roughly drawn in blunt pencil, the page comprises five small summary sketches of the formations of cliffs and headlands. The last two of these appear to extend onto folio 13 recto opposite (D35358).
Technical notes:
There is a little offset chalk from D35358 towards the centre of the gutter of the sketchbook.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Cliffs 1845’, 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/cliffs-r1142188, accessed 29 August 2026.