'Briton Ferry: A Fisherman's Cottage and a Boat Pulled Up under a Low Cliff', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Briton Ferry: A Fisherman's Cottage and a Boat Pulled Up under a Low Cliff

From Welsh, Isle of Wight and Other Subjects

Date 1795-6

MediumGraphite and watercolour on paper

Dimensionssupport: 273 x 340 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Reference

D00704

Turner Bequest XXVIII S

On display at Tate Britain

Theme: Turner Collection

Room: Turner: Works on Paper

Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Briton Ferry: A Fisherman’s Cottage and a Boat Pulled Up under a Low Cliff 1795–6

D00704
Turner Bequest XXVIII S

Pencil and watercolour with stopping-out on white wove paper, 273 x 378 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram towards bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XXVIII S’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Exhibition history

References

This is based on a drawing in the South Wales sketchbook (Tate D00567; Turner Bequest XXVI 15). It is probably the beginning of the drawing commissioned by Dr Matthews listed among the ‘Order’d Drawings’ near the front of the South Wales book (Tate D40557), together with Matthews’s commission of a view of Llandaff Cathedral (Tate D00686; Turner Bequest XXVIII A).

There are colour trials in the left margin.

Verso:

Blank; dirt-stained; watercolour trials and smears; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram; inscribed in a modern hand in pencil ‘21’.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

Read this catalogue entry in full

This catalogue entry is part of: David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, December 2012.