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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Heysham Head and Village; a Detail of the Porch of Heysham Lodge 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Heysham Head and Village; a Detail of the Porch of Heysham Lodge’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 78 Verso:
Heysham Head and Village; a Detail of the Porch of Heysham Lodge 1816
D11160
Turner Bequest CXLV 78a
Pencil on white wove paper, 154 x 96 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Porch’ towards top left
Partial watermark ‘I & E | 1’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Porch’, ‘Heysham’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the left half of a double-page panorama continued on folio 79 recto opposite (D11161), recording the view from just north of Heysham Head, looking out over Heysham village and Morecambe Bay to the distant Lake District hills. There is a detail of the porch of Heysham Lodge above to the left. Turner made a more detailed sketch of almost exactly the same material in the Yorkshire 4 book (Tate D11508–D11510; Turner Bequest CXLVII 40, 40a–41), which accompanied him on the same tour.
The present author has dated Turner’s sketches of Heysham to Thursday 8 August 1816.1 This sketch, drawn with the page turned horizontally, is upside-down in relation to the main sequence (see the sketchbook’s Introduction).

David Hill
April 2009

1
See Hill 1984, pp.87–90.

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Heysham Head and Village; a Detail of the Porch of Heysham Lodge 1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2009, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2023, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-heysham-head-and-village-a-detail-of-the-porch-of-heysham-r1201746, accessed 26 April 2025.