'East and West Looe', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

East and West Looe

From Ivy Bridge to Penzance Sketchbook

Turner Bequest CXXV

Date 1811

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 166 x 208 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D08885

Turner Bequest CXXV 16 a

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 17 Verso:

East and West Looe 1811

D08885
Turner Bequest CXXV 16a

Pencil on white wove paper, 166 x 208 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

From West Looe Hill, with the cupola of St Nicholas’s Church in the foreground below and East Looe to the right, Turner looks up the East Looe River between the hills to the north.

This is the third of four drawings of Looe, Cornwall; see also folios 15 recto, 16 verso and 18 verso (D08881, D08883, D08887; CXXV 14, 15a, 17a). There are also studies in the contemporary Devonshire Coast, No.1 sketchbook (between Tate D08580 and D08588; Turner Bequest CXXIII 111a and 115a; and on Tate D08614; Turner Bequest CXXIII 129a).

Technical notes:

There is some slight brown spotting in the sky.

Matthew Imms
February 2011

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.