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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Seafront at Deal with the Semaphore Tower; Studies of Boats c.1830

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Seafront at Deal with the Semaphore Tower; Studies of Boats’ c.1830
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 5 Recto:
The Seafront at Deal with the Semaphore Tower; Studies of Boats c.1830
D35765
Turner Bequest CCCLXIII 5
Pencil on white wove paper, 76 x 98 mm
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘5’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘CCCLXIII – 5’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, on the right is a slight continuation of the view of the semaphore tower on Deal’s seafront on folio 4 verso opposite (D35764). The boats occupying the rest of the page were presumably observed off the town. For other views of Deal see under folio 4 recto (D35763).

Matthew Imms
September 2016

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The Seafront at Deal with the Semaphore Tower; Studies of Boats c.1830 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2016, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-seafront-at-deal-with-the-semaphore-tower-studies-of-r1183728, accessed 26 April 2024.