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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country 1811 > Cornwall and Devon Sketchbook [pseudo ... > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Coast towards Bossiney and Trevalga from Tintagel 1811

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Coast towards Bossiney and Trevalga from Tintagel’ 1811
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 75 Recto:
The Coast towards Bossiney and Trevalga from Tintagel 1811
D41357
Turner Bequest CXXV a 75
Pencil on white wove paper, 140 x 215 mm
Inscribed by C.F. Bell in pencil ’75.’ top right
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXXV.A – 75’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner’s viewpoint is high on Tintagel’s Island peninsula, looking north-east across Tintagel Haven and Barras Nose in the foreground. The Sisters Rocks, off Bossiney (see also folio 74 recto; D41356) are just beyond Barras Nose, with Long Island, up the Cornish coast off Trevalga (see folio 31 recto; D41307), above and to their right; further on lie Boscastle (see folio 71 recto; D41353) and the sweep of Bude Bay (see under folio 35 recto; D41311) in the distance. For other views of Tintagel, see under folio 9 recto (D41284).
As discussed in the introduction, the pages of this ‘sketchbook’ appear to have originally been loose sheets, and are not recorded in Finberg’s 1909 Inventory of the Bequest, although he subsequently noted the subject as ‘Rocky coast’ in a manuscript listing,1 as did C.F. Bell in his own notes.2 Figures usually corresponding to Finberg’s MS catalogue page numbers, which differ from Bell’s sequence, are inscribed on the verso of most sheets.
1
A.J. Finberg, MS addenda, [circa 1928–39], tipped into a copy of his A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, Tate Britain Prints and Drawings Room, vol.I, opposite p.356, as CXXV(a) 50.
2
C.F. Bell, MS addenda, [after 1928], tipped into a copy of Finberg 1909, Tate Britain Prints and Drawings Room, vol.I, p.356C, as CXXVa 75.
Technical notes:
The sheet is slightly wrinkled, possibly as a result of exposure to damp.
Verso:
Blank, save for inscription by Edwin Fagg in pencil ‘150 | 50’ bottom right. There are glue stains at the corners of the sheet.

Matthew Imms
July 2011

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The Coast towards Bossiney and Trevalga from Tintagel 1811 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 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-the-coast-towards-bossiney-and-trevalga-from-tintagel-r1137505, accessed 19 April 2024.