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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Five Sketches of a Coastline or Islands near Møn 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Five Sketches of a Coastline or Islands near Møn’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 8 Recto:
Five Sketches of a Coastline or Islands near Møn 1835
D30835
Turner Bequest CCCV 8
Pencil on white laid writing paper, 92 x 155 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘[?Steerborg Kirke]’ top right, ‘[...]’ left
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘8’ bottom right (faded)
Stamped in black ‘CCCV–8’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These sketches show coastline or islands in Denmark. Over four hundred islands comprise the Danish archipelago, some of which Turner would have seen as he sailed from Kiel in Germany to Copenhagen. The building at top right is inscribed with what appears to read ‘[?Steerborg Kirke]’. This may refer to the church at Stege, the largest town on the Island of Møn in south-eastern Denmark (see Tate D30834; Turner Bequest CCCV 7a).

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Five Sketches of a Coastline or Islands near Møn 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-five-sketches-of-a-coastline-or-islands-near-mon-r1187213, accessed 25 April 2024.