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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Town on Sussex Coast c.1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Town on Sussex Coast’ c.1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 85 Verso:
Town on Sussex Coast c.1824
D18453
Turner Bequest CCX 80a
Pencil on white wove paper, 75 x 118 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘B’, ‘W’ , ‘Y’ top centre towards right, ‘W’ centre towards rear
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has rendered views of a town on the Sussex Channel coast, possibly between Littlehampton, at the mouth of the Arun, Bognor Regis and Selsey.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Town on Sussex Coast 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-town-on-sussex-coast-r1181338, accessed 24 April 2024.