Joseph Mallord William TurnerEast and West Looe 1811

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Artist
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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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
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

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