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Margate (?), from the Sea
Joseph Mallord William Turner British
Not on view
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.
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