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

This sketch depicts Creux on the south-east coast of Sark where a small summer harbour had been established. The ‘almost perpendicular cliffs which overhang and surround’ this ‘romantic spot’ have been captured, as has the opening of a small tunnel, indicated by a small dark patch towards the centre of the page, which gave access to the island’s higher ground.1 Turner reminded himself of this passage with an inscription towards the bottom right-hand corner of the page: ‘Passage to the H’. This tiny bay constitutes one of the volume’s major preoccupations; for a list of these drawings, see the entry for folio 58 recto (D23629; Turner Bequest CCLII 58).