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 Channel Cliffs with a Low Sun 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Channel Cliffs with a Low Sun’ 1845
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 27 Verso:
Channel Cliffs with a Low Sun 1845
D35535
Turner Bequest CCCLXI 27v
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 86 mm
Partial watermark ‘King | 1842’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This slight drawing, made with the page turned vertically, is not mentioned in Finberg’s 1909 Inventory.1 It apparently shows the sun rising or setting and reflected in the sea off cliffs, probably on a Channel coast. See the sketchbook’s Introduction for the many slight coastal views scattered through it.

Matthew Imms
September 2016

1
See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.II, p.1172.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Channel Cliffs with a Low Sun 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-low-sun-r1183957, accessed 19 September 2024.