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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country 1811 > Corfe to Dartmouth Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Charmouth and Lyme Regis 1811

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Charmouth and Lyme Regis’ 1811
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 28 Recto:
Charmouth and Lyme Regis 1811
D08839
Turner Bequest CXXIV 28
Pencil on white wove paper, 170 x 209 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Road’ bottom left and ‘Charmouth | and Lyme’ bottom right (partly obscured by the stamp noted below)
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXXIV – 28’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The view is towards Charmouth from the Bridport road, looking south-west past Stonebarrow Hill on the left towards the coast in the direction of Lyme Regis. A slighter drawing in the Devonshire Coast, No.1 sketchbook (Tate D08412; Turner Bequest CXXIII 27a) may show much the same view.
Turner was travelling west from Bridport (see Tate D08375, D08452, D08471; Turner Bequest CXXIII 7a, 47a, 55b) towards Lyme (see under Tate D08429; Turner Bequest CXXIII 36). Folio 29 verso of the present book (D08841) shows Lyme in the distance from the beach at Charmouth, which is also the viewpoint for the sketch on folio 29 recto (D08840).
Technical notes:
A jagged tear from the centre of the page to the right-hand edge has been repaired. There is a dark incidental mark at the top left.
Verso:
Blank

Matthew Imms
February 2011

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Charmouth and Lyme Regis 1811 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 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-charmouth-and-lyme-regis-r1137320, accessed 19 April 2024.