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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Autumn Tour of Northern France 1845 > Dieppe and Kent Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Channel Cliffs, with a Windmill 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Channel Cliffs, with a Windmill’ 1845
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 22 Recto:
Channel Cliffs, with a Windmill 1845
D35526
Turner Bequest CCCLXI 22
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 86 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘22’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCCLXI – 22’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned vertically, the outer quarter shows a windmill on the skyline above steep cliffs, presumably on a Channel coastline. See the sketchbook’s Introduction for the many slight coastal views scattered through it.
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Matthew Imms
September 2016

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Channel Cliffs, with a Windmill 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-channel-cliffs-with-a-windmill-r1183949, accessed 22 September 2024.