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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Scarborough from the South 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Scarborough from the South’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 95 Verso:
Scarborough from the South 1801
D02770
Turner Bequest LIV 95a
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, the subject is continued on folio 96 recto opposite (D02771). One of the long sequence of sketches on the Yorkshire coast between Scarborough and Whitby between folios 83 verso and 98 verso (D02746–D02776), it is very possibly the starting point for the composition of the finished watercolour of Scarborough Town and Castle: Morning: Boys Catching Crabs, shown at the Royal Academy in 1811 (Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide),1 and related works including a version dated 1809 in the Wallace Collection, London.2

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.350 no.528, pl.122 (colour).
2
Ibid., no.527, reproduced.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Scarborough from the South 1801 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 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-scarborough-from-the-south-r1178956, accessed 24 April 2024.