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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Views of the Sussex Coast c.1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Views of the Sussex Coast’ c.1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 86 Recto:
Views of the Sussex Coast c.1824
D18454
Turner Bequest CCX 81
Pencil on white wove paper, 75 x 118 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘W’, ‘B’, ‘W Oct’ rear centre
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘81’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCX 81’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has rendered cursory views of a beach on the Sussex Channel coast, with figures on the sands overlooking the waters beyond. The lowermost sketch is a distant prospect of a town on a nearby headland; it is inscribed with the initials ‘W’, ‘B’, ‘W Oct’.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Views of the 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-views-of-the-sussex-coast-r1181339, accessed 19 September 2024.