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 > Brighton and Arundel Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Sunset off the Coast ?at Portsmouth or Brighton c.1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sunset off the Coast ?at Portsmouth or Brighton’ c.1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 14 Recto:
Sunset off the Coast ?at Portsmouth or Brighton c.1824
D18334
Turner Bequest CCX 14
Pencil on white wove paper, 75 x 118 mm
Watermarked ‘Smith & [Allnutt] | 18 [22]’
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘14’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCX 14’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Executed with fluid and gestural handling, here Turner pictures the coastline of a town and turbulent seawaters beyond. The location may be Portsmouth or perhaps Brighton. An expansive and stormy sky is rendered with swift, jerky hatching. This view appears to have been drawn over two existing jottings that were taken with the sketchbook turned vertically.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Sunset off the Coast ?at Portsmouth or 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-sunset-off-the-coast-at-portsmouth-or-brighton-r1181219, accessed 26 April 2024.