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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Rocky Coast with Cliffs to the Left and the Sea to the Right 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Rocky Coast with Cliffs to the Left and the Sea to the Right’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 35 Verso:
A Rocky Coast with Cliffs to the Left and the Sea to the Right 1801

D02652
Turner Bequest LIV 35a
Pencil on white wove paper prepared with a mauve-pink ground, 115 x 164 mm
Stamped in black with Turner Bequest monogram top right
 
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 36 recto opposite (D02653), under which the subject is discussed.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Rocky Coast with Cliffs to the Left and 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-a-rocky-coast-with-cliffs-to-the-left-and-the-sea-to-the-r1178838, accessed 18 September 2024.