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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Harbour at Parton, near Whitehaven 1809

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Harbour at Parton, near Whitehaven’ 1809
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
The Harbour at Parton, near Whitehaven 1809
D12250
Turner Bequest CLV 9
Pencil on white wove paper, 186 x 231 mm (top and bottom left corners missing)
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in red ink ‘9’, bottom right
Stamped in black in ‘CLV 9’, bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the second of five sketches from this sketchbook that record subjects in the Whitehaven area on the north-west coast of Cumbria. The present subject (and three of the others) is the village of Parton, about two miles north of Whitehaven, taken from the rocky foreshore, at the end of the north breakwater. For Parton see notes to the similar view (D12249; Turner Bequest CLV 8), taken from closer to the end of the harbour wall.
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Inscribed in pencil (?by one of the Executors of the Turner Bequest) in pencil ‘Sched 164.8’. The majority of pages in this sketchbook are similarly inscribed similarly (for the significance of this see notes to D12241, D12244; Turner Bequest CLV 2, 4a).
Also inscribed by an unknown hand in pencil ‘Unmounted/ CLV/ Box 97’, bottom right, presumably in relation to a previous Turner Bequest box system in which the drawing was stored.

David Hill
June 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘The Harbour at Parton, near Whitehaven 1809 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 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-the-harbour-at-parton-near-whitehaven-r1134662, accessed 19 April 2024.