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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > Wales and Isle of Wight 1795-1800 > South Wales Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Scene on the River Cleddau, at Hook, between Pembroke and Haverfordwest 1795

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Scene on the River Cleddau, at Hook, between Pembroke and Haverfordwest’ 1795
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 28 Recto:
Scene on the River Cleddau, at Hook, between Pembroke and Haverfordwest 1795
D00580
Turner Bequest XXVI 27
Pencil and watercolour on white wove paper, 203 x 264 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Hook Pembrokeshire’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XXVI 27’ bottom left, descending vertically
Hook is situated on the Western Cleddau, north of Milford Haven, between Pembroke and Haverfordwest.
The drawing was made with the page turned horizontally.
Technical notes:
The sheet is discoloured, badly damaged at the corners, and stained and spotted; three corners have been made up.
Verso:
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘740’; in another hand in pencil ‘Hook, Pembrokeshire’; and, in a further hand ‘27’, ‘54’; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Scene on the River Cleddau, at Hook, between Pembroke and Haverfordwest 1795 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 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-scene-on-the-river-cleddau-at-hook-between-pembroke-and-r1140907, accessed 25 April 2024.