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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Overgrown Cliffs, with the Sea to the Right 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Overgrown Cliffs, with the Sea to the Right’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 89 Verso:
Overgrown Cliffs, with the Sea to the Right 1801
D02593
Turner Bequest LIII 89a
Pencil on white wove paper, 162 x 112 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, the subject is continued on folio 90 recto opposite (D02594). This is perhaps a scene on the coast of the Firth of Forth near Musselburgh; see folios 40 verso–41 recto and 90 verso–91 recto (D02530–D02531, D02595–D02596).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Overgrown Cliffs, with the Sea to the Right 1801 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-overgrown-cliffs-with-the-sea-to-the-right-r1178615, accessed 26 April 2024.