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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country 1811 > Devonshire Coast, No.1 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Dunster from Minehead 1811

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Dunster from Minehead’ 1811
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 181 Verso:
Dunster from Minehead 1811
D08699
Turner Bequest CXXIII 178v
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 75 x 117 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The view is south-east from the coast at or near Minehead (see under folio 4 recto; D08368), with the Conygar Tower on its hill above Dunster silhouetted towards the right and the coast of Blue Anchor Bay beyond. The prospect from Minehead Harbour is now dominated by the Butlins holiday camp along the opposite shore. There is what appears to be a similar view on folio 156 recto (D08654; CXXIII 153).
The present drawing is not recorded in Finberg’s Turner Bequest Inventory.1 For other views of Dunster, see under folio 19 verso (D08398).

Matthew Imms
June 2011

1
See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.351.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Dunster from Minehead 1811 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 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-dunster-from-minehead-r1137177, accessed 25 April 2024.