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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner View along the Coast, with Cliffs to the Right and a Collier Inshore 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View along the Coast, with Cliffs to the Right and a Collier Inshore’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 94 Verso:
View along the Coast, with Cliffs to the Right and a Collier Inshore 1801
D02768
Turner Bequest LIV 94a
Pencil with scraping-out on white wove paper prepared with a mauve-pink ground, 115 x 164 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this is presumably a scene on the coast between Scarborough and Whitby, which seems to be the setting for the long sequence of sketches between folios 83 verso and 98 verso (D02746–D02776).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘View along the Coast, with Cliffs to the Right and a Collier Inshore 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-view-along-the-coast-with-cliffs-to-the-right-and-a-collier-r1178954, accessed 26 April 2024.