Joseph Mallord William Turner

Benoath Cove near Bossiney, with Saddle Rocks and Long Island in the Distance

1811

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Cornwall and Devon Sketchbook [pseudo-Finberg CXXV a]
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 142 × 215 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D41354
Turner Bequest CXXV a 72

Catalogue entry

From the coast east of Tintagel (for which see under folio 9 recto; D41284) and Bossiney, Turner looks north-east to Long Island, the prominent feature towards the left in the distance, with Saddle Rocks below and in front of it. There is a closer view on folio 31 recto (D41307), under which other local views are noted.
As discussed in the introduction, the pages of this ‘sketchbook’ appear to have originally been loose sheets, and are not recorded in Finberg’s 1909 Inventory of the Bequest, although he subsequently noted the subject as ‘Rocks on coast’ in a manuscript listing,1 while C.F. Bell described it in his own notes as ‘Rocky coast’.2 Figures usually corresponding to Finberg’s MS catalogue page numbers, which differ from Bell’s sequence, are inscribed on the verso of most sheets.
1
A.J. Finberg, MS addenda, [circa 1928–39], tipped into a copy of his A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, Tate Britain Prints and Drawings Room, vol.I, opposite p.356, as CXXV(a) 64.
2
C.F. Bell, MS addenda, [after 1928], tipped into a copy of Finberg 1909, Tate Britain Prints and Drawings Room, vol.I, p.356C, as CXXVa 72.
Technical notes:
The sheet is slightly wrinkled, possibly as a result of exposure to damp.
Verso:
Blank, save for inscription by Edwin Fagg in pencil ‘164 | 64’ bottom right. There are glue stains at the corners of the sheet.

Matthew Imms
July 2011

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