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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?The South-West Coast of Cumbria ?1809

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
?The South-West Coast of Cumbria ?1809
D08979
Turner Bequest CXXVII 12
Pencil on white wove paper, 126 x 202 mm
Part watermark ‘lmon | 05’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘12’ top left, upside down (now faint)
Stamped in black ‘CXXVII 12’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject is presently unidentified, but is perhaps on or near the south-west Cumbrian coast. Views of Millom Castle, Cumbria, elsewhere in this sketchbook are datable to 1809 (see under D08975; CXXVII 9); assuming the identification is correct, the present study would presumably have been made on the same tour. For other identified or likely Cumbrian subjects, see under D08965 (CXXVII 1).
There are designs for Sandycombe Lodge on the verso (D08980; CXXVII 12a).
Technical notes:
This page is a face of one of the loose bifolio sheets which form the majority of the so-called Sandycombe and Yorkshire sketchbook, along with a few single leaves. The sheets were not bound, but folded inside each other in a sequence which is not entirely recoverable (see the sketchbook’s Introduction for a suggested order). When unfolded, this page is continuous with D08991 (CXXVII 19a); the measurements given above are for the present work alone.

Matthew Imms
January 2012

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘?The South-West Coast of Cumbria ?1809 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 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-the-south-west-coast-of-cumbria-r1134690, accessed 28 March 2024.