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JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER, R.A. (LONDON 1775-1851)

Lot 49
02.07.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 49 | JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER, R.A. (LONDON 1775-1851)
Estimate value
£ 60 000 – 100 000
JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER, R.A. (LONDON 1775-1851)
Pendennis Castle and the entrance to Falmouth Harbour, Cornwall: Scene after a Wreck
pencil and watercolour, heightened with bodycolour, and with scratching out on paper
6 1/8 x 9 1/8 in. (15.4 x 23.4 cm.)




Provenance

George Cooke (1781-1834), 1822.
Benjamin Godfrey Windus (1790-1867), by 1840.
Frank Dillon (1823-1909), by 1857.
John Dillon (d.1868) (†); Christie's, London, 17 April 1869, lot 40 (50 gns to Vokins).
with Arthur Vokins, London.
George Rennie (1831-1908); Christie's, London, 4 June 1870, lot 29 (136 gns to Vokins).
with Arthur Vokins, London.
sale at Robinson and Fisher, 1928 [?].
H.L. Fison (†); Christie's, London, 6 November 1973, lot 147.
with Leger Galleries, London, 1973 (stock no. AW 139), from where purchased by
R.A. Shuck.
with Agnew's, London, 1985.
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 6 July 2010, lot 64, where purchased by the present owner.



Literature

W. Robinson, The History of Antiquities of the Parish of Tottenham in the County of Middlesex, London, 1840, I, pp. 89-90.
W. Thornbury, The Life of J.M.W. Turner, R.A., London, 1877, p. 615.
Sir W. Armstrong, Turner, London, 1902, p. 270.
W.G. Rawlinson, The Engraved Work of J.M.W. Turner, R.A., London, I, 1908, pp. 54-5, under no. 101.
A.J. Finberg, An Introduction to Turner's Southern Coast, London, 1929, pp. xx, 27.
A.J. Finberg, The Life of J.M.W. Turner, R.A., Oxford, 2nd ed., 1961, p. 483, no. 268.
A. Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg and London, 1979, p. 352, no. 458, illustrated.
E. Shanes, Turner's Rivers, Harbours and Coasts, London, 1981, pp. 14, 25, 152, 155, 159, no. 28, illustrated in colour pl. 28.
E. Shanes, 'Picture Notes', Turner Studies, III, no. 2, Winter, 1984, p. 56.
S. Whittingham, 'The Turner Collectors: Benjamin Godfrey Windus 1790-1867', Turner Studies, VII, no. 2, Winter, 1987, p. 32.
E. Shanes, Turner's England, London, 1991, no. 29.



Exhibited

London, Cooke's Gallery, 1822, no. 104, ‘Pendennis Castle, Cornwall; Scene after a Wreck’ (lent by George Cooke).
Manchester, Art Treasures, 1857, no. 349 (lent by Frank Dillon).
London, Leggatt Brothers, English Painters 1700-1850, 1951, no. 40 (lent by H. L. Fison).
London, Leggatt Brothers, Summer Exhibition of English Pictures, including the collection of H.L. Fison, 1956, no. 14.
London, Leggatt Brothers, Autumn Exhibition, 1958, no. 26.



Engraved

Etching and engraving, George Cooke, 1 May 1817, for Picturesque Views of the Southern Coast of England, 1814-26 (R. 101).
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