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

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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 50 Recto:
Scenes on the Suffolk Coast c.1824
D18254
Turner Bequest CCIX 50
Pencil on white wove paper, 115 x 118 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Taken with the sketchbook turned upside down, here Turner captures aspects of the shoreline at a village on the Suffolk North Sea coast. Boats are beached on the sands close to the foot of a small cliff atop which buildings are visible. See also Tate D18253, D18255–D18256; Turner Bequest CCIX 49a, 50a–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-r1181136, accessed 27 April 2024.