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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > East Anglia, Sussex and Yorkshire 1824 > Brighton and Arundel Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Coastline ?at Brighton and Portsmouth c.1824

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Coastline ?at Brighton and Portsmouth’ c.1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 8 Recto:
Coastline ?at Brighton and Portsmouth c.1824
D18322
Turner Bequest CCX 8
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 75 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Light’ centre, ‘3 B[...]’ bottom right (inverted)
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘8’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCX 8’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These cursory sketches, dashed-off in a matter of moments, show coastline and possibly sky. The location may be Brighton or Portsmouth, though the sketches are rather too slight to reveal any identifiable features. The artist has inscribed ‘Light’ next to a sky study at centre. There is also a coastal view at rear, drawn with the sketchbook turned upside down and annotated ‘3 B[...]’.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Coastline ?at Brighton and Portsmouth 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-coastline-at-brighton-and-portsmouth-r1181207, accessed 23 April 2024.