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 Harbour and Lighthouse, with Channel Cliffs Beyond; a Coastal View, Possibly near St Leonards-on-Sea 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Harbour and Lighthouse, with Channel Cliffs Beyond; a Coastal View, Possibly near St Leonards-on-Sea’ 1845
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 91 Verso:
A Harbour and Lighthouse, with Channel Cliffs Beyond; a Coastal View, Possibly near St Leonards-on-Sea 1845
D35651
Turner Bequest CCCLXI 91a
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, there is a rapid study of a harbour and lighthouse with cliffs beyond, presumably on a Channel coast; the drawing continues on folio 92 recto opposite (D35652). See the sketchbook’s Introduction for the many slight coastal views scattered through it.
Below, the other way up, is a coastal view with a steamer off shore. It also continues opposite, where there may be a note relating to St Leonards-on-Sea, adjacent to Hastings in East Sussex.

Matthew Imms
September 2016

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Harbour and Lighthouse, with Channel Cliffs Beyond; a Coastal View, Possibly near St Leonards-on-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-a-harbour-and-lighthouse-with-channel-cliffs-beyond-a-r1184066, accessed 01 October 2025.