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

The subject is presently unidentified, but is perhaps on or near the south-west Cumbrian coast. Views of Millom Castle, Cumbria, elsewhere in this sketchbook are datable to 1809 (see under D08975; CXXVII 9); assuming the identification is correct, the present study would presumably have been made on the same tour. For other identified or likely Cumbrian subjects, see under D08965 (CXXVII 1).

There are designs for Sandycombe Lodge on the verso (D08980; CXXVII 12a).

Technical notes:

This page is a face of one of the loose bifolio sheets which form the majority of the so-called Sandycombe and Yorkshire sketchbook, along with a few single leaves. The sheets were not bound, but folded inside each other in a sequence which is not entirely recoverable (see the sketchbook’s Introduction for a suggested order). When unfolded, this page is continuous with D08991 (CXXVII 19a); the measurements given above are for the present work alone.