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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Farnley Hall and Yorkshire c.1808-24 > Scarborough 1 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Rocks on the Coast near Scarborough, Looking South c.1816-18

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Rocks on the Coast near Scarborough, Looking South’ c.1816-18
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 15 Recto:
Rocks on the Coast near Scarborough, Looking South c.1816–18
D11930
Turner Bequest CL 13
Pencil on white wove paper, 117 x 180 mm
Watermarked ‘R BAR[NARD] | 18[12]’
Inscribed by an unknown hand in red ink ‘13’ bottom left, descending verically
Stamped in black ‘CL 13’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
A similar detached block appears from the opposite side in two sketches that culminate in a watercolour of Scarborough dated 1818 (private collection).1 The first of these is D11924; Turner Bequest CL 8 in the present sketchbook and the second is Tate D11971; Turner Bequest CLI 17a in the Scarborough 2 sketchbook.
1
Andrew Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg 1979, p.360 no.529.
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David Hill
September 2008

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Rocks on the Coast near Scarborough, Looking South c.1816–18 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2008, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-rocks-on-the-coast-near-scarborough-looking-south-r1146950, accessed 26 April 2024.