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

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

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Rocky Cliff Face, Seen from Below 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Rocky Cliff Face, Seen from Below’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 9 Verso:
A Rocky Cliff Face, Seen from Below 1801
D02406
Turner Bequest LII 9a
Black chalk on coarse blue laid paper, 143 x 111 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject is continued on folio 10 recto opposite (D02407).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Rocky Cliff Face, Seen from Below 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-a-rocky-cliff-face-seen-from-below-r1178742, accessed 14 July 2026.