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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Thomas Girtin On the Italian Coast near Lerici c.1794-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner, Thomas Girtin, ‘On the Italian Coast near Lerici’ c.1794-8
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Thomas Girtin 1775–1802
Folio 27 Recto:
On the Italian Coast near Lerici c.1794–8
D36504
Turner Bequest CCCLXXIV 26
Pencil and grey and grey-blue wash on white wove paper, 149 x 249 mm mounted on white cartridge paper, 368 x 480 mm
Inscribed in a later hand in pencil ‘“Coast of Genoa near Lerici”’ bottom right
Inscribed in pencil ‘26’ on mount, top right
Stamped in black ‘CCCLXXIV – 26’ on mount, bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This was traced from a drawing by John Robert Cozens (1752–1797). Compare Beaumont tracing no.188 (after Cozens; Yale Center for British Art, New Haven).1
1
Bell and Girtin 1935, p.37 under no.64.
Verso:
Blank (laid down); inscribed, probably by Thomas Girtin, in pencil ‘Coast of Genoa towards Lerici’.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘On the Italian Coast near Lerici c.1794–8 by Joseph Mallord William Turner, Thomas Girtin’, catalogue entry, April 2012, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-thomas-girtin-on-the-italian-coast-near-lerici-r1140572, accessed 25 April 2024.