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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Pier and Coastal Terrain, English Channel c.1826

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Pier and Coastal Terrain, English Channel’ c.1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 7 Recto:
Pier and Coastal Terrain, English Channel c.1826
D24117
Turner Bequest CCLVI 6
Pencil on white laid paper, 158 x 104 mm
Partial watermark ‘1822’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘6’ top left, inverted
Stamped in black CCLVI – 6’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner filled this page with studies of coastal scenery, including drawings of a pier. The seaside sketches in this volume have been located to the regions around Dover, Folkestone, and Calais on each side of the English Channel.1

John Chu
July 2015

1
A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.II, p.777; Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p.156.

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Pier and Coastal Terrain, English Channel c.1826 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 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-pier-and-coastal-terrain-english-channel-r1185410, accessed 23 April 2024.