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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Buildings at Brighton c.1824

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Buildings at Brighton’ c.1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 30 Verso:
Buildings at Brighton c.1824
D18360
Turner Bequest CCX 30a
Pencil on white wove paper, 75 x 118 mm
Watermarked ‘Smith & [Allnutt] | 18[22]’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘W’ top centre, ‘W’ ‘S’ top right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a study of a parade of Georgian buildings on the seafront at Brighton. There is a separate sketch of some townhouses at the upper register and at rear, a jotting of the beach with a fishing boat moored at left. This sketch is associated with Turner’s design Brighthelmstone, Sussex, engraved for the Southern Coast print series in 1825 (Tate impression T04421).
For further sketches of Brighton in this book see Tate D18343–D18350, D18353–D18365, D18369–D18371; Turner Bequest CCX 20a–23a, 25a–33a, 35a–36a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Buildings 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-buildings-at-brighton-r1181245, accessed 24 April 2024.