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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?North Foreland Lighthouse, Kent c.1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?North Foreland Lighthouse, Kent’ c.1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 34 Recto:
?North Foreland Lighthouse, Kent c.1832
D27329
Turner Bequest CCLXXIX 34
Pencil on white wove paper, 206 x 86 mm
Watermark ‘1823’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘33’ top left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXIX 33’ top left, inverted
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner filled this page with studies of a lighthouse and its surroundings. A.J. Finberg suggested they depict the structure at North Foreland.1 For more information on the Kentish scenes in this volume, see the sketchbook introduction.
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A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.II, p.886
Technical notes:
A dark brown finger print marks the bottom left-hand corner of the page.

John Chu
March 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘?North Foreland Lighthouse, Kent c.1832 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 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-north-foreland-lighthouse-kent-r1181465, accessed 26 April 2024.