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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner An Island in the Severn Estuary near Beachley 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘An Island in the Severn Estuary near Beachley’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
An Island in the Severn Estuary near Beachley 1798
D01651
Turner Bequest XLI 20
Pencil on white wove paper, 282 x 458 mm
Inscribed in pencil ‘20’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XLI – 20’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner had first noticed the little island in the Severn opposite the mouth of the Wye on his first crossing to Wales in 1791;1 he drew it in his Bristol and Malmesbury sketchbook (Tate D00080; Turner Bequest VI 7a). He made two further drawings of it in the Cyfarthfa book (D01652, D01661; Turner Bequest XLI 21, 28a).
1
See Andrew Wilton, Turner in Wales, exhibition catalogue, Mostyn Art Gallery, Llandudno 1984, p.5.
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘An Island in the Severn Estuary near Beachley 1798 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-an-island-in-the-severn-estuary-near-beachley-r1173267, accessed 24 April 2024.