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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Cliffs and a Boat ?near Calais 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Cliffs and a Boat ?near Calais’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 11 Recto:
Cliffs and a Boat ?near Calais 1824
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Turner Bequest CCXVI 11
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘11’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–11’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This fluidly delineated yet cursory sketch shows cliffs on a coastline with a sailing boat on the waters below. The location may be Calais where the artist started his tour on 11 August 1824.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Cliffs and a Boat ?near Calais 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-cliffs-and-a-boat-near-calais-r1174360, accessed 26 April 2024.