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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Sunlit Bay: ?Similar to 'Glaucus and Scylla' and 'Chryses' 1805

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Sunlit Bay: ?Similar to 'Glaucus and Scylla' and 'Chryses'’ 1805
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 69 Recto:
A Sunlit Bay: ?Similar to ‘Glaucus and Scylla’ and ‘Chryses’ 1805
D05597
Turner Bequest XC 69
Pen and ink on off-white wove paper, prepared with a grey wash, 150 x 258 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘60’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XC 69’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
See note to folio 61 verso of the sketchbook (D05588), where it is suggested that both sketches fit together to form the composition used for the watercolour Chryses, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1811 (private collection),1 and the unpublished Liber Studiorum plate Glaucus and Scylla. In this sketch, the reflection of sunlight on the waters of a bay and a mountainous horizon, common to both subjects, are already sketched in. The right portion of these two compositions, containing wooded rocks with an arched opening and a curving sweep of shore, seems to be taking shape in the sketch on folio 61 verso.
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Andrew Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg 1979, p.356 no.492.
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David Blayney Brown
August 2007

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘A Sunlit Bay: ?Similar to ‘Glaucus and Scylla’ and ‘Chryses’ 1805 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2007, 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-a-sunlit-bay-similar-to-glaucus-and-scylla-and-chryses-r1129912, accessed 27 April 2024.