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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Northern France c.1826-32 > France and Folkestone Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Piers, English Channel c.1826

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Piers, English Channel’ c.1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 10 Recto:
Piers, English Channel c.1826
D24123
Turner Bequest CCLVI 9
Pencil on white laid paper, 158 x 104 mm
Partial watermark ‘1822’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘9’ top left, inverted
Stamped in black CCLVI – 9’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner filled much of this page with studies of coastal structures, particularly the lattice work of tall piers at the centre. 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 The drawings on folio 9 verso opposite (D24122; Turner Bequest CCLVI 8a) are of Calais.

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, ‘Piers, 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-piers-english-channel-r1185416, accessed 13 May 2024.