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 Kirkley near Lowestoft c.1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Scenes on Coast at Kirkley near Lowestoft’ c.1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 46 Verso:
Scenes on Coast at Kirkley near Lowestoft c.1824
D18247
Turner Bequest CCIX 46a
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 115 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘[?Dratwich]’ bottom left, ‘W’ bottom centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has rendered views of the beaches and cliffs at Suffolk, as well as sketches of a town and its streets. The church depicted in the central sketches may be St Peter and St John’s, the parish church of Kirkley near Lowestoft (see Tate D18246; Turner Bequest CCIX 46).

Alice Rylance-Watson
January 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Scenes on Coast at Kirkley near 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-scenes-on-coast-at-kirkley-near-lowestoft-r1181129, accessed 26 April 2024.