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 Cliffs and a Harbour on a Channel Coast; a Steamer at Sea 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Cliffs and a Harbour on a Channel Coast; a Steamer at Sea’ 1845
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 83 Verso:
Cliffs and a Harbour on a Channel Coast; a Steamer at Sea 1845
D35635
Turner Bequest CCCLXI 83a
Pencil on white wove paper, 86 x 111 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘[?wall]’ towards top left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
At the top is a study of what seems to be an enclosed harbour, presumably on a Channel coast. Two other sketches are the other way up, with distant cliffs and the smoke of a steamer. See the sketchbook’s Introduction for the many slight coastal views scattered through it.

Matthew Imms
September 2016

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Cliffs and a Harbour on a Channel Coast; a Steamer at Sea 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-cliffs-and-a-harbour-on-a-channel-coast-a-steamer-at-sea-r1184051, accessed 18 April 2024.