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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country 1811 > Somerset and North Devon Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Combe Martin Harbour 1811

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Combe Martin Harbour’ 1811
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Combe Martin Harbour 1811
D08950
Turner Bequest CXXVI 5
Pencil on white wove paper, 200 x 324 mm
Watermark ‘J Whatman | 1801’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘C Martin’ bottom left
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘5’ bottom right (now very faint)
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXXVI 5’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Looking west, this study of Combe Martin harbour is from a viewpoint to the north-east of the similar sketch on D08949 (CXXVI 4); see the entry for the latter for further discussion of the subject. The same house on the cliff is seen in each. On the verso of the present work (D08951; CXXVI 5a) is a view out to sea.
Technical notes:
There are five sets of stitch holes near the left-hand edge. There is a small piece missing at the bottom right corner, matching similar losses to adjacently numered leaves (D08946–D08949, D08951, D40294, D40295; CXXVI 1–4 and the verso of the present sheet, CXXVI 5a) and to D08964 (CXXVI 18).

Matthew Imms
January 2011

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Combe Martin Harbour 1811 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2011, 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-combe-martin-harbour-r1137546, accessed 23 April 2024.