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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Vessels on Coast at Brighton c.1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Vessels on Coast at Brighton’ c.1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 18 Recto:
Vessels on Coast at Brighton c.1824
D18341
Turner Bequest CCX 18
Pencil on white wove paper, 75 x 118 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘18’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCX 18’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This slight sketch depicts the coast at Brighton with a group of fishing boats moored on the beachfront.
For further sketches of Brighton in this book see Tate D18343–D18350, D18353–D18365, D18369–D18371; Turner Bequest CCX 20–23a, 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).
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Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Vessels on Coast 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-vessels-on-coast-at-brighton-r1181226, accessed 18 April 2024.