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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Northern France c.1826-32 > Morlaise to Nantes Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Coastal Terrain; Figure 1826

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Coastal Terrain; Figure’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 88 Verso:
Coastal Terrain; Figure 1826
D23148
Turner Bequest CCXLVII 87a
Pencil on white laid paper, 167 x 105 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘all White Gam[...] wants’, ‘3 and 3’ top left’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner filled the top edge of this page with small studies of Brittany coastal terrain. In the centre of the page, inverted in relation to the drawings above, is a rapid sketch of a woman seen from behind.

John Chu
September 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Coastal Terrain; Figure 1826 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-coastal-terrain-figure-r1184976, accessed 25 April 2024.