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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Whitby: The Abbey and Cliffs from the East, with a View along the Coast 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Whitby: The Abbey and Cliffs from the East, with a View along the Coast’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 88 Recto:
Whitby: The Abbey and Cliffs from the East, with a View along the Coast 1801
D02755
Turner Bequest LIV 88
Pencil with scraping-out on white wove paper prepared with a mauve-pink ground, 115 x 164 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘88’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘LIV 88’ 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 87 verso opposite (D02754). A long sequence of sketches on the Yorkshire coast between Scarborough and Whitby runs between folios 83 verso and 98 verso (D02746–D02776).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Whitby: The Abbey and Cliffs from the East, with a View along the Coast 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-whitby-the-abbey-and-cliffs-from-the-east-with-a-view-along-r1178941, accessed 19 April 2024.