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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Lighthouse Seen from the Shore 1796

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Lighthouse Seen from the Shore’ 1796
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
A Lighthouse Seen from the Shore 1796
D00681
Turner Bequest XXVII T
Pencil and watercolour on white wove paper, 248 x 363 mm
Stamped in black ‘XXVII T’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Catalogued by A.J. Finberg among drawings of about 1795,1 this sheet is not obviously part of the Margate sequence listed in the present group. However, it seems to belong technically to the year 1796, and in its preoccupation with the interrelationship of sea and shore it coheres with the other works described here. It is however less immediate in its effect, a cooler and more impersonal account of its subject which may have been derived from a drawing or print by another artist.
1
Finberg 1909, I, p.55, in Turner Bequest section XXVII, ‘Miscellaneous’, c.1795, pp.53–6.
Verso:
The sheet has been laid down.

Andrew Wilton
January 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Lighthouse Seen from the Shore 1796 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-a-lighthouse-seen-from-the-shore-r1149803, accessed 25 April 2024.