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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Sketches of the Cliffs at Moen, from the Sea 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Sketches of the Cliffs at Moen, from the Sea’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 5 Verso:
Two Sketches of the Cliffs at Moen, from the Sea 1835
D30830
Turner Bequest CCCV 5 a
Pencil on white laid writing paper, 92 x 155 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These sketches depict the cliffs at Møn, an island in south-eastern Denmark. Turner passed the eastern side of Møn on his journey by boat from Kiel, a harbour north of Hamburg. Cecilia Powell writes that the artist departed Kiel for Copenhagen at 7.30 pm on Saturday 5 September, and ‘it must have been around dawn’ when Turner saw Møn.1 The sketches close to the gutter of the book comprise one whole view, separated into two sections. See also Tate D30831–D30832; Turner Bequest CCCV 6–6a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2015

1
Powell 1995, p.49.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Two Sketches of the Cliffs at Moen, from the Sea 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-two-sketches-of-the-cliffs-at-moen-from-the-sea-r1187208, accessed 19 April 2024.