Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Offset: Cowes and the River Medina from East Cowes
Ink offset on off-white wove paper, 144 x 210 mm
Inscribed in pencil ‘5’ bottom right
Naturally not mentioned in Finberg’s 1909
Inventory,
1 this ephemeral modern sheet is a reversed offset of the dense ink drawing on Tate D20858 (Turner Bequest CCXXVII a 55), formed as part of the recovery process in the aftermath of the Tate Gallery flood of 1928.
There are two similar instances in the present subsection, and three in the parallel ‘East Cowes Castle’ subsection, as noted in their Introductions; numerous examples related to early figure studies are listed in the Introduction to the ‘Royal Academy c.1789–99’ section.