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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Farnley Hall and Yorkshire c.1808-24 > Scarborough 1 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner From the South Bay, Scarborough, looking South-East to Filey Brigg; Cattle on the Sands c.1816-18

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘From the South Bay, Scarborough, looking South-East to Filey Brigg; Cattle on the Sands’ c.1816-18
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 25 Recto:
From the South Bay, Scarborough, looking South-East to Filey Brigg; Cattle on the Sands c.1816–18
D11946
Turner Bequest CL 27
Pencil on white wove paper, 117 x 180 mm
Inscribed by an unknown hand in red ink ‘27’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CL 27’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The first of two similar subjects (with D11941; Turner Bequest CL 22) taken in the south bay at Scarborough, and probably showing the same cows on the beach. The distinctive shape of Osgodby Point can be seen to the right. This is only visible beyond White Nab when quite close to the south pier of Scarborough Harbour. The view is more or less the continuation to the left of another sketch in the sequence (D11944; Turner Bequest CL 25).
Verso:
Blank, except for an inscription by ?John Ruskin in red ink ‘168 I’ bottom left (see notes to folio 3, D11945; Turner Bequest CL 26).
This page followed by a spurious blank leaf, not numbered, inserted as part of some unrecorded restoration.

David Hill
September 2008

How to cite

David Hill, ‘From the South Bay, Scarborough, looking South-East to Filey Brigg; Cattle on the Sands c.1816–18 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2008, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-from-the-south-bay-scarborough-looking-south-east-to-filey-r1146961, accessed 22 July 2024.