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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Creux Harbour, Sark Island ?1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Creux Harbour, Sark Island’ ?1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 58 Recto:
Creux Harbour, Sark Island ?1832
D23629
Turner Bequest CCLII 58
Pencil on white wove paper, 187 x 114 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Creuze Harb’ centre right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘58’ top right, running vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLII – 58’ top right, running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned vertically, Turner filled this page with two or more views of the rocky coastal terrain in and around Sark Island. As identified by Turner’s note on the right-hand side of the page, the sketches in the top half of the page were taken at Creux on the south-east coast of the island, at which ‘romantic spot’ a small summer harbour had been established.1 This tiny bay constitutes one of the volume’s major preoccupations, and recurs on folios 63 verso (D23640; Turner Bequest CCLII 63a); 64 recto (D23641; Turner Bequest CCLII 64); 65 recto (D23643; Turner Bequest CCLII 65); 66 recto to 69 recto (D23645–D23651; Turner Bequest CCLII 66–9).

John Chu
April 2014

1
J.T. Cochrane, A Guide to the Island of Guernsey, St Peter Port 1826, p.139.

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Creux Harbour, Sark Island ?1832 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, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-creux-harbour-sark-island-r1175121, accessed 25 April 2024.