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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Thames sketchbooks c.1804-14 > River and Margate Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Views of the Essex Shore: Southend and Foulness Island c.1805-9

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Views of the Essex Shore: Southend and Foulness Island’ c.1805-9
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 61 Verso:
Two Views of the Essex Shore: Southend and Foulness Island circa 1805–9
D06456
Turner Bequest XCIX 57a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 115 x 190 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Foulness’ and ‘Oxney Light’ above top image, and ‘South End’ below bottom image, lower right of centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted. Foulness Island, at the eastern extremity of the Essex bank of the Thames, is seen above, Southend below. What Turner means by ‘Oxney Light’ is unclear. The two vessels shown off Southend include a lightship with its twin lanterns on the yard-arm, but too close to the shore to be the Nore lightship shown on folio 62 verso (D06458; Turner Bequest XCIX 58a).

David Blayney Brown
March 2009

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Two Views of the Essex Shore: Southend and Foulness Island c.1805–9 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2009, 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-two-views-of-the-essex-shore-southend-and-foulness-island-r1130652, accessed 27 April 2024.