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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Scenes on the Sands at Yarmouth c.1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Scenes on the Sands at Yarmouth’ c.1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 27 Recto:
Scenes on the Sands at Yarmouth c.1824
D18208
Turner Bequest CCIX 27
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 115 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This slight sketch shows a building at the harbour or beach of Great Yarmouth on the Norfolk coast. The wooden hut may have been used for storing fishing equipment. Faint vertical strokes of pencil suggest the masts of moored boats in the distance.
Further sketches of Yarmouth are on Tate D18194–D18196, D18202–D18205; Turner Bequest CCIX 20–21, 24–25a. Turner’s sketches are associated with designs for both the England and Wales (Tate impression T04547) and East Coast engraving schemes, though the latter design, housed at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, was unpublished.1

Alice Rylance-Watson
January 2015

1
Wilton 1979, p.394 no.810 and 405 no.904.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Scenes on the Sands at 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-the-sands-at-yarmouth-r1181090, accessed 25 April 2024.