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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Whitehaven from the North 1809

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Whitehaven from the North’ 1809
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Whitehaven from the North 1809
D12253
Turner Bequest CLV 12
Pencil on white wove paper, 186 x 231 mm (top and bottom left corners missing)
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in red ink ‘12’, bottom right
Stamped in black in ‘CLV 12’, bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is last of five sketches from this sketchbook that record subjects in the Whitehaven area on the north-west coast of Cumbria. The present subject is taken from higher ground to the north of Whitehaven, with, in the left foreground, one of the winding houses of one of the many coal pits that characterised this area, with St Nicholas’s Church beyond that with the busy port in the right middle distance and the coast towards St Bees Head beyond.
For Whitehaven see notes to D12249; Turner Bequest CLV 8.
Verso:
Inscribed in pencil (?by one of the Executors of the Turner Bequest) in pencil ‘Sched 164.5’. The majority of pages in this sketchbook are similarly inscribed (for the significance of this see notes to D12241, D12244; Turner Bequest CLV 2, 4a).
Also inscribed by an unknown hand in pencil ‘Unmounted/ CLV/ Box 97’, bottom right, presumably in relation to a previous Turner Bequest box system in which the drawing was stored.

David Hill
June 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Whitehaven from the North 1809 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2009, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-whitehaven-from-the-north-r1134665, accessed 18 May 2024.