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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner At Brighton c.1824

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 21 Recto:
At Brighton c.1824
D18345
Turner Bequest CCX 21
Pencil on white wove paper, 75 x 118 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘W’ top left, ‘[?Brighton]’ top left towards centre
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘21’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCX 21’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner records an aspect of the seafront at Brighton, with the newly erected Chain Pier in the distance at right. See also D18335, D18343–D18344, D18347–D18350, D18353–D18365, D18369–D18371; Turner Bequest CCX 14a, 20–20a, 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, ‘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-at-brighton-r1181230, accessed 28 March 2024.