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 Coastal Terrain, English Channel c.1826

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Coastal Terrain, English Channel’ c.1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 15 Recto:
Coastal Terrain, English Channel c.1826
D24133
Turner Bequest CCLVI 14
Pencil on white laid paper, 104 x 158 mm
Partial watermark of a crown and laurels
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘14’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black CCLVI – 14’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled this page with studies of coastal scenery and clifftop buildings. 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 14 verso opposite (D24132; Turner Bequest CCLVI 13a) depict Folkestone.

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, ‘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-coastal-terrain-english-channel-r1185426, accessed 25 April 2024.