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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country and Yorkshire 1814-17 > Devon Rivers, No.2 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Beggar's Island in the St Germans or Lynher River, with Wearde Quay Beyond 1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Beggar's Island in the St Germans or Lynher River, with Wearde Quay Beyond’ 1814
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 30 Verso:
Beggar’s Island in the St Germans or Lynher River, with Wearde Quay Beyond 1814
D09705
Turner Bequest CXXXIII 30a
Pencil on white wove paper, 110 x 178 mm
Part watermark ‘ows | 12’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Beggars Island’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Looking north to Wearde Quay from or near the south bank of the St Germans or Lynher River, the low form of Beggar’s Island is prominent in the foreground. Compare the view on folios 28 recto and 35 recto (D09701, D09710).
For other views on and around the St Germans/Lynher, see under folio 27 verso (D09700).

Matthew Imms
July 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Beggar’s Island in the St Germans or Lynher River, with Wearde Quay Beyond 1814 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-beggars-island-in-the-st-germans-or-lynher-river-with-wearde-r1147256, accessed 19 April 2024.