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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Coastal View ?at Brighton c.1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Coastal View ?at Brighton’ c.1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 16 Verso:
Coastal View ?at Brighton c.1824
D18338
Turner Bequest CCX 16a
Pencil on white wove paper, 75 x 118 mm
Watermarked ‘Smith & [Allnutt] | 18 [22]’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Light’ centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
In this cursory view Turner pictures the seafront of a coastal town. The location is probably Brighton, with its Chain Pier rendered in the distance (see Tate D18335, D18343, D18345, D18355, D24836, N02064; Turner Bequest CCX 14a, 20, 21, 27, CCLIX 271). The sky is expansive and stormy. Turner has inscribed ‘Light’ at centre to mark out illumination through the clouds.
For further sketches of Brighton in this book see Tate D18344, D18347–D18350, D18353–D18365, D18369–D18371; Turner Bequest CCX 20a, 22–23a, 25a–33a, 35a–36a. See also Turner’s design Brighthelmstone, produced for Cooke’s Picturesque Views of the Southern Coast of England and published in 1825 (Tate impression T05289 and Tate D18469; Turner Bequest CCX 88).

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Coastal View ?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-coastal-view-at-brighton-r1181223, accessed 18 April 2024.