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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > East Sussex c.1806-20 > Vale of Heathfield Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Lulworth Cove, with Portland Beyond ?1811

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Lulworth Cove, with Portland Beyond’ ?1811
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 23 Recto:
Lulworth Cove, with Portland Beyond ?1811
D10238
Turner Bequest CXXXVII 22
Pencil on white wove paper, 181 x 228 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘22’ bottom right (now very faint)
Blind-stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXXXVII 22’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner’s viewpoint is a narrow strip of level ground overlooking the south-east side of Lulworth Cove, south-west to the Isle of Portland and north-west to Hambury Tout, the steep hill in the distance on the right. There is a slightly more detailed version of the same view in the Corfe to Dartmouth sketchbook (Tate D08832; Turner Bequest CXXIV 21a), among others of the site dating from Turner’s 1811 tour of the West Country, when the present drawing was probably also made.
There is a nearby view on folio 22 recto (D10237; CXXXVII 21), and a further Dorset subject (although then in Hampshire), Christchurch Priory, on folio 5 recto (D10310; CXXXVII 67). Lulworth Cove is the first of the sites in Turner’s West Country topographical notes on folio 1 recto (D10206).
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Matthew Imms
May 2011

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Lulworth Cove, with Portland Beyond ?1811 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2011, 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-lulworth-cove-with-portland-beyond-r1131280, accessed 23 April 2024.