Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Oil paintings
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/joseph-mallord-william-turner-558" aria-label="More by Joseph Mallord William Turner" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Joseph Mallord William Turner</a>
A Sandy Beach
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
adults
beach
figure
people
seascapes and coasts
painting oil paint canvas
A Sandy Beach
support: 600 × 914 mm
frame: 693 × 992 × 45 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the <a href="/search?gid=999999781" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Turner Bequest</a> 1856
<p><b>272. </b>[<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-a-sandy-beach-n05521" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05521</span></a>]<b> A Sandy Beach</b> <i>c.</i> 1825–30</p>
<p>THE TATE GALLERY, LONDON (5521)</p>
<p>Canvas, 23 5/8 × 36 (60 × 91·5)</p>
<p><b>Coll.</b> Turner Bequest 1856 (142, I unidentified 3'1 1/2" × 2'0"; identified 1946 by chalk number on back); transferred to the Tate Gallery 1947.</p>
<p><b>Lit.</b> Davies 1946, pp. 165, 188.</p>
<p>Immature and tentative when compared with the seapieces here dated to the 1830s and 1840s (Nos. 454–472) and closer in style to the <i>Three Seascapes</i> on one <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/canvas" title="Glossary definition for 'Canvas'"><span>canvas</span></a> of <i>c.</i> 1827 which is, incidentally, of the same size overall (No. 271 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-three-seascapes-n05491" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05491</span></a>]).</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, <i>The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner</i>, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984
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2004-10-07T00:00:00
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adults beach figure people seascapes and coasts