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 Looking South along the Rocky Coast near Scarborough c.1816-18

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Looking South along the Rocky Coast near Scarborough’ c.1816-18
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 24 Recto:
Looking South along the Rocky Coast near Scarborough c.1816–18
D11914
Turner Bequest CL 1
Pencil on white wove paper, 117 x 180 mm
Watermarked ‘[BA]RNARD | [18]12’
Inscribed by an unknown hand in red ink ‘1’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CL 1’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch records the view looking south from a rocky nab to the right, with conspicuous bedding to the rock outcrop and a building, perhaps a small tower, above, with cliffs in the distance. The building is possibly the same one seen in (D11924; Turner Bequest CL 8 and the profile left of centre is probably that of the detached rock seen in D11930; Turner Bequest CL 13; both sketches form part of the same sequence.).
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David Hill
September 2008

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Looking South along the Rocky Coast near Scarborough 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-looking-south-along-the-rocky-coast-near-scarborough-r1146960, accessed 19 April 2024.