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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Boats and Houses ?at Brighton c.1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Boats and Houses ?at Brighton’ c.1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 7 Verso:
Boats and Houses ?at Brighton c.1824
D18321
Turner Bequest CCX 7a
Pencil on white wove paper, 75 x 118 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These cursory sketches depict a beach with moored fishing boats and seafront buildings. The art historian Ian Warrell writes that this sketch resembles a watercolour drawing of Brighton.1

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2015

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114th Annual Exhibition of Watercolours and Drawings, exhibition catalogue, Thos Agnew & Sons, London 1987, no.37.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Boats and Houses ?at Brighton c.1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 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-boats-and-houses-at-brighton-r1181206, accessed 25 April 2024.