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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Rocky Cliffs with the Sea in the Foreground, ?near Scarborough 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Rocky Cliffs with the Sea in the Foreground, ?near Scarborough’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 98 Verso:
Rocky Cliffs with the Sea in the Foreground, ?near Scarborough 1801
D02776
Turner Bequest LIV 98a
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, these cliffs are probably on the Yorkshire coast, near Scarborough; see folios 95 verso–96 recto (D02770–D02771). The drawing is the last of the long sequence on the Yorkshire coast between Scarborough and Whitby, beginning on folio 83 verso (D02746–D02776).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Rocky Cliffs with the Sea in the Foreground, ?near Scarborough 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-rocky-cliffs-with-the-sea-in-the-foreground-near-scarborough-r1178962, accessed 19 April 2024.