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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > East Anglia, Sussex and Yorkshire 1824 > Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Scenes on Coast at Caister near Great Yarmouth c.1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Scenes on Coast at Caister near Great Yarmouth’ c.1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 23 Verso:
Scenes on Coast at Caister near Great Yarmouth c.1824
D18201
Turner Bequest CCIX 23a
Pencil on white wove paper, 115 x 118 mm
Watermarked ‘al[lee] | 18[19]’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Caister C[...]’ centre left towards top (inverted)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These sketches show the town of Caister and the coastline near Great Yarmouth in Norfolk. Caister, noted for its medieval castle, is recorded on Tate D18180–D18185; Turner Bequest CCIX 13–15a. Windmills dot the horizon in each of the prospects. All of the sketches have been rendered with the book turned upside down.

Alice Rylance-Watson
January 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Scenes on Coast at Caister near Great Yarmouth 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-scenes-on-coast-at-caister-near-great-yarmouth-r1181083, accessed 19 April 2024.