JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER
1775-185 1
144 Long Ship's Lighthouse,
Land's End
Watercolor and gouache, scraped by the artist; H: 28.5
cm (nViin.); W: 43.9 cm (lyVioin.)
88.GC.55 (SEE PLATE 16)
MARKS AND INSCRIPTIONS! None.
PROVENANCE: Frederick Craven of Bakewell, Derby-
shire (sale, Christie's, London, May 18, 1895, lot 38);
John Edward Taylor (sale, Christie's, London, July 5,
1912, lot 42); C. Morland Agnew; Gerald Agnew,
Henley-on-Thames; Vice-Admiral Sir William Agnew,
Henley-on-Thames, and then to his widow; Charles C.
Cunningham, Jr., Williamstown, Mass.; art market,
London.
EXHIBITIONS: International Exhibition, Exhibition Build-
ing, South Kensington, London, 1862, no. 1015; Na-
tional Exhibition of Works of Art, Museum of Ornamental
Art, Leeds, 1868, no. 2195; Royal Jubilee Exhibition, Man-
chester, 1887, no. 1763 ; Winter Exhibition, Royal Acad-
emy of Arts, London, 1891, no. 83; Loan Collection of Pic-
tures and Drawings by J.M. W Turner, R.A., and of a
Selection of Pictures by Some of His Contemporaries, Cor-
poration of London Art Gallery, Guildhall, April-July
1899 , no. 144 (descriptive and biographical notes by
A. G. Temple); The British Empire Exhibition, Palace of
Arts, Wembley, 1924, no. 13; British Art, Royal Academy
of Arts, London, January-March 1934, no. 893; Cente-
nary Loan Exhibition of Water-Colour Drawings byj. M. W.
Turner, R. A., Thomas Agnew and Sons, Ltd., London,
1951, no. 72; L'aquarelle anglaise 1750-1850, Musée Rath,
Geneva, and Cabinet des Estampes de l'Ecole Polytech-
nique Fédérale, Zurich, October 1955-March 1956, no.
124 (catalogue by P. Oppé); Masters of British Painting
1800-1950, Museum of Modern Art, New York; City
Art Museum, Saint Louis; and California Palace of the
Legion of Honor, San Francisco, October 1956-May
1957 , no. in (catalogue by A. C. Ritchie); Exhibition of
Watercolours by J. M. W Turner, King's Lynn, July-
August 1957, no. 21; Agnew's i$oth Anniversary Loan Ex-
hibition of Paintings and Watercolours by J. M. W Turner,
R.A., Thomas Agnew and Sons, Ltd., London, No-
vember-December 1967, no. 66 (introduction by E.Joli); Bicentenary Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts,
London, December 1968-March 1969, no. 557 (cata-
logue by St. John Gore); La peinture romantique anglaise et
les Préraphaélites, Petit Palais, Paris, January-April 1972 ,
no. 304 (catalogue by M. Kitson et al.); J. M. W Turner:
Der Maler des Lichts, Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen
Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, September-
November, 1972, no. 93 (catalogue by H. Bock, U.
Prinz, and A. Wilton); Turner 1775-1851, Royal Acad-
emy of Arts, London, November 1974-March 1975 ,
no. 431 (catalogueby M. Butlin, A. Wilton, andj. Gage);
Turner's Picturesque Views in England and Wales, Thomas
Agnew and Sons, Ltd., London, 1979, no. 73.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Sir F. Wedmore, Turner and Ruskin: An
Exposition of the Work of Turner from the Writings of Ruskin
(London, 1900), vol. 2 , opp. p. 200 ; Sir W. Armstrong,
Turner (1902), vol. i, p. 261; E. T Cook and A. Wed-
derburn, The Works of John Ruskin (London, 1903), vol.
3, pp. liv; 298, n. 2; 401, 403-4, 534; 5^3, n. i; 566-7,
pi. 10 ; W. G. Rawlinson, The Engraved Work ofj. M. W
Turner, R.A. (London, 1908; 1913), vols, i, pp. xcv,
161-62; 2, p. 195; L. Binyon, English Watercolours (Lon-
don, 1933), p. 131; rev. ed. (London, 1944), p. 115; W. G.
Constable and C. Johnson, eds., Commemorative Cata-
logue of the Exhibition of British Art (London, 1935), pp.
184-85, no. 774; M. Hardie, Water-Colour Painting in
Britain, vol. 2: The Romantic Period (London, 1967), pp.
28 , 36;E. Shanes, Turner's Picturesque Views in England and
Wales (London, 1979), pp. 45, no. 73; 155,157; A. Wilton,
J. M. W Turner: His Art and Life (Secaucus, N. J., 1979),
pp. 179; 401, no. 864; idem, Turner and the Sublime (Chi-
cago, 1980), p. 150, n. i, under nos. 63-65; D. Birch,
Ruskin on Turner (London, 1990), pp. 30-32; E. Shanes,
Turner's Human Landscapes (London, 1990), pp. 190, 291.IN 1825 TURNER AGREED WITH THE PUBLISHER
Charles Heath to produce the watercolors for a series of
line engravings entitled Picturesque Views in England
and Wales. Ninety-six engravings appeared between
1827 and 1838 , when the project went bankrupt (Shanes
!979> PP- 10—15). Made rather late in the series, circa
1834-35, the present watercolor was engraved by W. R.
Smith and published in 1836 (Rawlinson 1908; 1913,
vols. i-2, no. 288). H. E. Lloyd's notes to the engraving
point out that several miles at sea beyond Land's End inTURNER • BRITISH SCHOOL 321