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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Morecambe Bay: A Lime Kiln under Cliffs 1797

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Morecambe Bay: A Lime Kiln under Cliffs’ 1797
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 78 Recto:
Morecambe Bay: A Lime Kiln under Cliffs 1797
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Turner Bequest XXXV 63
Pencil on white wove paper, 274 x 370 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram towards bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XXXV 63’ bottom left, descending vertically
Drawn with the page turned horizontally, this subject is reminiscent of scenes observed by Turner on his tour of South Wales in 1795, for example Tate D00566 (Turner Bequest XXVI 14) in the South Wales sketchbook, and anticipates drawings he was to make in other parts of Wales during his tour of 1798. He produced a small oil painting known as Limekiln at Coalbrookdale in this year, 1797, or possibly 1798 (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven).1
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Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, p.20 no.22, pl.17 (colour).
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram; inscribed by A.J. Finberg in pencil ‘141.63’.

Andrew Wilton
August 2010

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Morecambe Bay: A Lime Kiln under Cliffs 1797 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2010, 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-morecambe-bay-a-lime-kiln-under-cliffs-r1150242, accessed 18 April 2024.