Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British
Title:
Dent de Lion, near Margate
Date:
ca. 1791
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, graphite and pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 1/8 x 13 5/8in. (25.7 x 34.6cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Watermark: Whatman
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.3.227
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
architectural subject | horses (animals) | dogs (animals) | carts | trees | buildings
Associated Places:
Europe | United Kingdom | England | Kent | Thanet, Isle of | Margate | Dent de Lion
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Papermaking and The Art of Watercolor in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Paul Sandby's "View of…Mr. Whatman's Turkey Mill" (Yale Center for British Art, 2006-02-22 - 2006-06-04)
Publications:
Theresa Fairbanks-Harris, Papermaking and the art of watercolor in eighteenth-century Britain : Paul Sandby and the Whatman Paper Mill, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2006, pp. 17, 18, fig. 14, NJ18.Sa56 A15 V5 2006 (YCBA)

Eric Shanes, The Dover Mail - by Turner or by 'Girton' ?, Turner Society News, no. 121, Spring 2014, pp. 6,8,9 [fn. 12, 13], NJ18 T85 T86 (YCBA)

Andrew Wilton, The life and work of J.M.W. Turner, Academy Editions, London, 1979, p. 303, no. 23, NJ18 T85 +W577 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:5523