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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner Looking along the Edge of a Rocky Cliff, with the Sea beyond to the Left 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Looking along the Edge of a Rocky Cliff, with the Sea beyond to the Left’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 4 Recto:
Looking along the Edge of a Rocky Cliff, with the Sea beyond to the Left 1801
D02398
Turner Bequest LII 4
Pencil and gouache on coarse blue laid paper, 143 x 111 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘4’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LII-4’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a continuation of the drawing on folio 3 verso opposite (D02397), where the sea is shown.
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Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Looking along the Edge of a Rocky Cliff, with the Sea beyond to the Left 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-looking-along-the-edge-of-a-rocky-cliff-with-the-sea-beyond-r1178734, accessed 14 July 2026.