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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Lighthouses at Orfordness and Lowestoft c.1824

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inside Front Cover Pastedown:
Lighthouses at Orfordness and Lowestoft c.1824
D41438
Turner Bequest
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 115 mm
Signed and inscribed in black ink by Henry Scott Trimmer ‘No 304. Contains 69 Sketches in Pencil | on both Sides –’ and Charles Turner on pastedown of inside front cover
Signed in pencil by John Prescott Knight ‘JPK’ and Charles Locke Eastlake ‘C.L.E.’ on pastedown of inside front cover
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram centre towards top left
Inscribed in pencil ‘CCIX’ top centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner has dashed off a rough sketch on the pastedown of the inside front cover. He depicts the lighthouses at Lowestoft (left) and Orfordness (right) in Suffolk. Each is studied in more detail on Tate D18225–D18227; Turner Bequest CCIX 35a–36a and Tate D18237–D18238; Turner Bequest CCIX 41a–42 respectively.
The executors’ endorsements are also inscribed.

Alice Rylance-Watson
January 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Lighthouses at Orfordness and Lowestoft c.1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-lighthouses-at-orfordness-and-lowestoft-r1181040, accessed 26 April 2024.