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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner East and West Looe 1811

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘East and West Looe’ 1811
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 17 Verso:
East and West Looe 1811
D08885
Turner Bequest CXXV 16a
Pencil on white wove paper, 166 x 208 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
From West Looe Hill, with the cupola of St Nicholas’s Church in the foreground below and East Looe to the right, Turner looks up the East Looe River between the hills to the north.
This is the third of four drawings of Looe, Cornwall; see also folios 15 recto, 16 verso and 18 verso (D08881, D08883, D08887; CXXV 14, 15a, 17a). There are also studies in the contemporary Devonshire Coast, No.1 sketchbook (between Tate D08580 and D08588; Turner Bequest CXXIII 111a and 115a; and on Tate D08614; Turner Bequest CXXIII 129a).
Technical notes:
There is some slight brown spotting in the sky.

Matthew Imms
February 2011

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘East and West Looe 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-east-and-west-looe-r1137366, accessed 26 April 2024.