Margate (?), from the Sea

ca. 1835–1840

Not on view

Returned to lender

This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.

It is probable that this is one of the more than one hundred representations that Turner made of this seaside community, which was increasingly like a second home for him beginning in the 1830s. He gives us scarcely any indication of a topographical setting for this watery scene, although the strokes of white paint just left of center of the horizon line might evoke the famous chalk cliffs at Margate. Turner used brushes, a cloth, a palette knife, and possibly his hands to achieve the varied surfaces of this work, which was never exhibited by the artist and is presumed to be unfinished.

Artwork Details

Overview

Exhibition History

Title: Margate (?), from the Sea
Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner (British, London 1775–1851 London)
Date: ca. 1835–1840
Geography: Country of Origin Great Britain
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 35 7/8 × 48 1/8 in. (91.2 × 122.2 cm)
Framed: 48 1/4 in. × 60 7/16 in. × 5 5/16 in. (122.5 × 153.5 × 13.5 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: The National Gallery, London. Turner Bequest, 1856
Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art