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 Buildings on a Channel Coast 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Buildings on a Channel Coast’ 1845
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 76 Recto:
Buildings on a Channel Coast 1845
D35620
Turner Bequest CCCLXI 76
Pencil on white wove paper, 86 x 111 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘76’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCLXI – 76’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This slight sketch shows unidentified buildings on what is presumably a Channel coast. There are indications of what seems to be rain over the sea towards the right. See the sketchbook’s Introduction for the many slight coastal views scattered through it.

Matthew Imms
September 2016

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Buildings 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-buildings-on-a-channel-coast-r1184036, accessed 23 April 2024.