J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Houses and Cliffs on the Coast c.1821-2

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Houses and Cliffs on the Coast’ c.1821-2
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 53 Recto:
Houses and Cliffs on the Coast c.1821–2
D17294
Turner Bequest CXCVIII 53
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 187 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘53’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXCVIII – 53’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
As described by Finberg, this page is decorated with two drawings; one of houses, and one of cliffs.1 The latter is a diagonally orientated, stretched across most of the bottom left corner of the sheet. The cliffs are ragged and coastal, comprised of straggly lines which flow into and across one another.
In the top right hand corner a domestic coastal dwelling, or collection of houses, is recorded. The buildings seem to perch close to the edge of some cliffs, which are indicated to the left with a sloping rope of undulating lines.
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Finberg 1909, I, p.605.
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Maud Whatley
January 2016

How to cite

Maud Whatley, ‘Houses and Cliffs on the Coast c.1821–2 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2016, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, February 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-houses-and-cliffs-on-the-coast-r1184568, accessed 24 April 2024.