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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Coastal Terrain ?near Margate, Kent c.1834

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Coastal Terrain ?near Margate, Kent’ c.1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 32 Verso:
Coastal Terrain ?near Margate, Kent c.1834
D27824
Turner Bequest CCLXXXII 32a
Pencil and chalk on brownish grey wove paper, 139 x 228 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted in relation to the sketchbook as foliated, this chalk study of coastal terrain is one of several in this volume. The red lines on the beach continue over onto folio 33 recto opposite (D27825; Turner Bequest CCLXXXII 33). For more information, see the sketchbook introduction.

John Chu
March 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Coastal Terrain ?near Margate, Kent c.1834 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-coastal-terrain-near-margate-kent-r1181685, accessed 20 September 2024.