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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Farnley Hall and Yorkshire c.1808-24 > Scarborough 1 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner In the ?South Bay at Scarborough: A Dark Horse being Ridden along Wet Sands, Followed by a Small Dog c.1816-18

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘In the ?South Bay at Scarborough: A Dark Horse being Ridden along Wet Sands, Followed by a Small Dog’ c.1816-18
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 6 Recto:
In the ?South Bay at Scarborough: A Dark Horse being Ridden along Wet Sands, Followed by a Small Dog c.1816–18
D11947
Turner Bequest CL 28
Pencil on white wove paper, 117 x 180 mm
Watermarked ‘.. HAYES | [1]812’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil with colour notes: ‘White B’ in the surf, left; ‘Bright’ immediately to the left of the horse’s hooves; ‘Dusky[?]’ in the sky, left, and ‘Light Green Gleam’ to right of horse
Inscribed by an unknown hand in red ink ‘28’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CL 28’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the first of two sketches, followed as folio 7 by D11948, Turner Bequest CL 29, recording a dark horse being ridden along wet sands. The conditions in both look foggy, suggesting early morning, and Turner has made several notes here relating to the effects.
The setting appears to be the south bay at Scarborough, looking south-west. Turner sketched this view under clear conditions, perhaps from exactly the same viewpoint as the present sketch, in D11944; Turner Bequest CL 25. See notes on the correspondence between D11944 and D11948 suggesting their locality to be the south bay, and by implication, the location for the present sketch.
Verso:
Blank, except for inscription by ?John Ruskin in red ink ‘168 I’ bottom left (see notes to folio 3, D11945; Turner Bequest CL 26).

David Hill
September 2008

How to cite

David Hill, ‘In the ?South Bay at Scarborough: A Dark Horse being Ridden along Wet Sands, Followed by a Small Dog c.1816–18 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2008, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-in-the-south-bay-at-scarborough-a-dark-horse-being-ridden-r1146939, accessed 19 April 2024.