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 the Suffolk Coast c.1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Scenes on the Suffolk Coast’ c.1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 49 Verso:
Scenes on the Suffolk Coast c.1824
D18253
Turner Bequest CCIX 49 a
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 swiftly rendered sketches depict the beaches and cliffs of the Suffolk coast. Buildings and houses overlook the sands from atop the cliffs; fishing boats are moored below near to small beach huts. See also Tate D18254–D18256; Turner Bequest CCIX 50–51.

Alice Rylance-Watson
January 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Scenes on the Suffolk Coast 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-suffolk-coast-r1181135, accessed 16 April 2024.