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 and a Lighthouse 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Channel Cliffs and a Lighthouse’ 1845
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 80 Verso:
Channel Cliffs and a Lighthouse 1845
D35629
Turner Bequest CCCLXI 80a
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, the drawing continues across folio 81 recto opposite (D35630). It shows a lighthouse here and cliffs there, presumably on 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, ‘Channel Cliffs and a Lighthouse 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-and-a-lighthouse-r1184045, accessed 24 April 2024.