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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Looking along a Stretch of Coast with High Cliffs: Moonlight 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Looking along a Stretch of Coast with High Cliffs: Moonlight’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 3 Recto:
Looking along a Stretch of Coast with High Cliffs: Moonlight 1801
D02617
Turner Bequest LIV 3
Pencil with white gouache on white wove paper prepared with a mauve-pink ground, 115 x 164 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘3’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LIV 3’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a continuation of the drawing on folio 2 verso (D02616), under which the subject is discussed.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Looking along a Stretch of Coast with High Cliffs: Moonlight 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-a-stretch-of-coast-with-high-cliffs-moonlight-r1178803, accessed 20 April 2024.