Property of a descend𒐪ent of Sir John Reid (1861-1933)
Lulworth Cove
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July 3, 10:51 AM GMT
Estimate
150,000 - 250,000 GBP
Lot Details
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Property of a descendent of Sir John Reid (1861-1933🀅)
Joseph Mallord William Turner, R.A.
(London 1775 - 1851)
Lulworth Cove
Wate💛rcolour over traces of pencil, heightened with bodycolour, stopping out, scratching out a🏅nd gum arabic
145 by 217 mm
William Bernard Cooke (1778-185🅺5) who, along with his brother, Georg𓃲e (1781-1834) commissioned the work from Turner;
Benjamin Godfrey Windus (1790-1867) of Tottenham, by 1840;
John Morley (1807-1896) of Clapton, North London,
his executor’s sale, Londonꦍ, Christie’s, 16 May 1896, lot 🃏24,
with Agnew’s, London (stock number 1814),
by w🦄hom sold, on 18 May⭕ 1896, to Francis Stevenson;
William George Rawlinson (1840-1928), by 1902,
with Agnew’s, London, who, on 23 July 1917, acquired the work from Rawlinson, along with thirty-two other Turner drawings and then, on 1 August 1917, sold the group en bloc to 💦Reginald Arthurಞ Tatton (1857-1926) (stock number 8665),
by descent to his son, Captain Thomas Arthur Tatton, M.C. (🅠1893-1868),
his sale, London, Christie’s, 14 December 19♏28, lot 14, sold together with W.B. Cooke’s engraving of the subject, bt. Agnew’s (stock number 1128),
who acquired the drawing on behalf of Sir John Reid, K.B.E. (1861🍎-1933),
by descent to the present owner
W. Thornbury, The Life of J.M.W. Turner, R.A., London 1877, 2nd ed., p. 210♈ ‘Turner’s lines on Lulworth ‘Where strata rise like scoria’;
Sir Walter Armstrong, Turner, London 1902, p. 264;
W. G. Rawlinson, The Engraved Work of J.M.W. Turner, R.A., vol. I, London 1908, no. 92;
W. G. Rawlinson, The Watercolours of J.M.W. Turner, London 1909, plate IX, reproduced in colour;
A.J. Finberg, Turner's Southern Coast, Introduction and Catalogue, London 1929, p. 11, r. 92;
A. Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg 1979, p. 351, no. 449, as untraced;
E. Shanes, Turner's Rivers, Harbours and Coasts, London 1981, p. 23, no. 21, as untraced;
S. Whittingham, ‘The Turner Collector: B.G. Windus’, Turner Studies, vol. 7, no. 2, Winter 1987, p. 33;
E. Shanes, Turner’s England 1810-1838, London 1990, pp. 44-58, no. 21;
J. Hamilton, Turner and the Scientists, London 1998, pp. 118-119;
Turner Society News, vo🗹l. 110, December 2008, the magazine’s front-cover (1909 colour𝓡 illustration)
L. Herrmann, ‘Southern Coast of England...', The Oxford Companion to J.M.W. Turner, Oxford 2001, p. 307;
I. Warrell, Turner’s Wessex, architecture and ambition, London/New York 2015, p. 126, fig. 119
Engraved:
By W.B. Cooke, 1814, for Picturesque Views of the Southern Coast of England
Possibly, London, The Fine Art Society, 1901&nbไsp;