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 90 Recto:
Overgrown Cliffs, with the Sea to the Right 1801
D02594
Turner Bequest LIII 90
Pencil on white wove paper, 162 x 112 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘90’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘LIII – 90’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this is a continuation of the drawing on folio 89 verso opposite (D02593), under which the subject is discussed.

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-r1178616, accessed 25 April 2024.