Joseph Mallord William Turner

Cowes beyond Shipping on the River Medina, from East Cowes

1827

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Cowes, the River Medina and Shipping
Medium
Gouache, pen and ink and graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 140 × 191 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D20860
Turner Bequest CCXXVII a 57

Catalogue entry

This is among dozens of blue paper studies presumably made in connection with the Cowes Regatta events in the late summer of 1827; see the Introduction to this subsection for other views across to Cowes. Here the foreground comprises trees and buildings which have not survived extensive redevelopment; several figures are seated in the shadows.
Finberg categorised this sheet and several others in a section mainly comprising ‘East Cowes Castle’ views1 distinguished by their use of ink outlines, having made a division between the Isle of Wight blue paper drawings using that medium and those in pencil and chalk, which he grouped as ‘Yachts, &c., at Cowes’;2 in the present subsection the latter have been augmented by those in ink of relevant subjects other than East Cowes Castle, which are dealt with separately.
1
Finberg 1909, II, pp.700–1, CCXXVII a 1–57.
2
Ibid., p.702, CCXXVIII 1–44.
Verso:
Blank; the dense ink has bled through from the recto.

Matthew Imms
November 2015

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