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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Autumn Tour of Northern France 1845 > Dieppe and Kent Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Bay below Channel Cliffs with a Sailing Boat and a Building; a Coastal View 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Bay below Channel Cliffs with a Sailing Boat and a Building; a Coastal View’ 1845
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 17 Recto:
A Bay below Channel Cliffs with a Sailing Boat and a Building; a Coastal View 1845
D35518
Turner Bequest CCCLXI 17
Pencil on white wove paper, 86 x 111 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘17’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCLXI – 17’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
In the upper half is a view of a bay framed by cliffs to the left and a building, possibly on a quay or pier to the right, with a small boat at the centre; compare the sketch on folio 18 recto (D35520). Above the main view appears to be a separate outline of distant cliffs. Below, inverted, is a rougher sketch of what appears to be a coastal view. Both sketches appear to have counterparts on folio 16 verso opposite (D35517). See the sketchbook’s Introduction for the many slight coastal views scattered through it.
Technical notes:
There is some brown staining at the gutter, possibly indicating water damage in the 1928 Tate flood.

Matthew Imms
September 2016

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Bay below Channel Cliffs with a Sailing Boat and a Building; a Coastal View 1845 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-a-bay-below-channel-cliffs-with-a-sailing-boat-and-a-r1183941, accessed 25 April 2024.