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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Moonlight over the Sea, with Distant Cliffs 1796-7

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Moonlight over the Sea, with Distant Cliffs’ 1796-7
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Moonlight over the Sea, with Distant Cliffs 1796–7
D00885
Turner Bequest XXXIII N
Watercolour and gouache on buff laid paper, 134 x 209 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XXXIII – N’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The cliffs shown here may be those, perhaps near Brighton, which feature in the drawing formerly known as ‘Shakespeare Cliff’ (Tate D00886; Turner Bequest XXXIII O), but the sheet seems to belong with the other Margate views in this series and is probably a view along the north Kent coast towards Reculver; see the view in the contemporary Wilson sketchbook (Tate D01231; Turner Bequest XXXVII 114).
Verso:
Blank; inscribed in a later hand ‘112’.

Andrew Wilton
January 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Moonlight over the Sea, with Distant Cliffs 1796–7 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-moonlight-over-the-sea-with-distant-cliffs-r1149802, accessed 25 April 2024.