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 Village below a Hill on a Channel Coast 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Village below a Hill on a Channel Coast’ 1845
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 75 Verso:
A Village below a Hill on a Channel Coast 1845
D35619
Turner Bequest CCCLXI 75a
Pencil on white wove paper, 86 x 111 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this drawing shows a village below a hill with a cluster of small boats apparently beached at the bottom left, with low cliffs in the foreground. The unidentified setting is presumably a Channel coast. See the sketchbook’s Introduction for the many slight coastal views scattered through it.

Matthew Imms
September 2016

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Village below a Hill on a Channel Coast 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-village-below-a-hill-on-a-channel-coast-r1184035, accessed 27 April 2024.