J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > Wales and Isle of Wight 1795-1800 > Welsh, Isle of Wight and Other Subjects > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Briton Ferry: A Fisherman's Cottage and a Boat Pulled Up under a Low Cliff 1795-6

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Briton Ferry: A Fisherman's Cottage and a Boat Pulled Up under a Low Cliff’ 1795-6
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
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

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Briton Ferry: A Fisherman’s Cottage and a Boat Pulled Up under a Low Cliff 1795–6 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2012, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-briton-ferry-a-fishermans-cottage-and-a-boat-pulled-up-under-r1141190, accessed 26 April 2024.