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Luke Herrmann makes a connection between the lower sketch, looking south-west along the beach to the Cobb (Lyme’s harbour), and the watercolour
Lyme Regis, Dorsetshire: A Squall, of about 1812 (Glasgow Museums),
1 engraved in 1814 for the
Picturesque Views on the Southern Coast of England (see the concordance of
Southern Coast subjects in the introduction to the 1811 tour). While the present drawing may have informed the watercolour, the main source was a more distant study in the contemporary
Corfe to Dartmouth sketchbook (Tate
D08841; Turner Bequest CXXIV 29a).
Eric Shanes
2 notes the relationship of this view to Turner’s later watercolour
Lyme Regis, Dorset (Cincinnati Art Museum),
3 made in about 1834 for the
Picturesque Views in England and Wales, where the town and Cobb appear at the same angle, but from closer than in the
Southern Coast view. For other views of Lyme Regis, see under folio 36 recto (
D08429).
Turner would have sketched Restormel – drawn above the Lyme view and defined by vertical and horizontal framing lines – a considerable time later, as the site is much further west on the outward leg of his West Country tour. There is a similar drawing on folio 40 verso opposite (
D08438); see under folio 7 recto (
D08374) for further views.
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