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 Coastline at ?Kessingland, Suffolk c.1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Coastline at ?Kessingland, Suffolk’ c.1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 47 Verso:
Coastline at ?Kessingland, Suffolk c.1824
D18249
Turner Bequest CCIX 47a
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 115 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘2 k[...]’ centre left towards top, ‘Kissingland’ centre right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These cursory sketches depict the coastline at Kessingland (inscribed ‘Kissingland’ by Turner) on the Suffolk North Sea coast. Turner renders the cliffs and beach here as well as Kessingland’s Church of Saint Edmund.

Alice Rylance-Watson
January 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Coastline at ?Kessingland, Suffolk 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-coastline-at-kessingland-suffolk-r1181131, accessed 20 September 2024.