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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Farnley Hall and Yorkshire c.1808-24 > Scarborough 2 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Looking South along the Cliffs near Scarborough c.1816-18

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Looking South along the Cliffs near Scarborough’ c.1816-18
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 4 Recto:
Looking South along the Cliffs near Scarborough c.1816–18
D11955
Turner Bequest CLI 4
Pencil on white wove paper, 116 x 182 mm
Inscribed by an unknown hand in red ink ‘4’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in brown ‘CLI 4’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Looking south, this view is possibly from slightly further south of the viewpoint of the preceding sketches in this book (D11953, 11954; Turner Bequest CLI 2, 3) with White Nab in the distance.
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David Hill
September 2008

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Looking South along the Cliffs 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-cliffs-near-scarborough-r1146978, accessed 27 April 2024.