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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country 1813 > Plymouth, Hamoaze Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Burgh Island from the Mainland 1813

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Burgh Island from the Mainland’ 1813
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 253 Verso:
Burgh Island from the Mainland 1813
D09432
Turner Bequest CXXXI 164a
Pencil on white wove paper, 95 x 157 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The sketches between folios 260 verso (D09446; CXXXI 171a) and here show Burgh Island, just off the coast at Bigbury-on-Sea, as discussed under D09446. With the page turned horizontally, the slight outline here shows its profile looking south-west from the mainland at Bigbury-on-Sea; the view is now dominated by the art deco hotel set on the hillside above the island’s shore.

Matthew Imms
April 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Burgh Island from the Mainland 1813 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 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-burgh-island-from-the-mainland-r1148162, accessed 21 September 2024.