Joseph Mallord William Turner

With the page turned horizontally, this was apparently drawn on a wet foreshore, perhaps at Traeth Mawr, at the same time as the study, also in broad black chalk, on folio 105 recto (D04121; Turner Bequest LXIX 106). The motif of carts and horses on a foreshore occurs in the Liber Studiorum print Scene on the French Coast (traditionally known as ‘Flint Castle’), published in 1807 (Tate impressions: A00917, A00918); see the entries for Tate D08104 and D08105 (Turner Bequest CXVI C, D). There is a drawing of Flint Castle on folio 114 recto (D04132; Turner Bequest LXIX 115); others are in the Dolbadarn sketchbook (Tate D02013, D02140; Turner Bequest XLVI 14, 99).

The present drawing was not recorded in Finberg’s 1909 Inventory.1