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 or near ?Lowestoft 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Scenes on Coast at or near ?Lowestoft’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 44 Verso:
Scenes on Coast at or near ?Lowestoft 1824
D18243
Turner Bequest CCIX 44a
Pencil on white wove paper, 115 x 118 mm
Watermarked ‘[al]lee | [18]19’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These sketches appear to depict the coast at Suffolk, possibly near Lowestoft. The rear view shows sailors and fishermen gathered at the shoreline close to a moored vessel. For similar views see Tate D18239–D18242, D18244–D18245; Turner Bequest CCIX 42a–44, 45– 45a).

Alice Rylance-Watson
January 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Scenes on Coast at or near ?Lowestoft 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-or-near-lowestoft-r1181125, accessed 09 May 2024.