Entrance to Fowey Harbour, Cornwall

c. 1827

Medium	watercolor and gouache, with scraping, on cream wove paper
Dimensions	Sheet: 11 1/4 x 15 1/2 in. (28.6 x 39.4 cm)
Object Number	2007.8.110
Acquisition	Gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Joseph Mallord William Turner, Entrance to Fowey Harbour, Cornwall, c. 1827, watercolor and gouache, with scraping, on cream wove paper. Clark Art Institute, gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007.8.110

Select Bibliography

Moon, Boys and Graves Gallery. Drawings by J.M.W. Turner, R.A. London: Moon, Boys and Graves Gallery, June 1833. Oscar & Peter Johnson, Ltd. Painters of a Seafaring Nation. October 18-November 10, 1967. London: Oscar & Peter Johnson, Ltd. 1967. Finberg, Alex J. The Life of J. M. W. Turner, R.A. 2nd rev. ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961. Author unknown. "Sea Paintings at Oscar and Peter Johnson's." The Antique Collector 38:5 (October 1967): 229. Shanes, Eric. Turner's Picturesque Views in England and Wales, 18251838. Introduction by Andrew Wilton. London: Chatto & Windus, 1979. Wilton, Andrew. Turner, Girtin and Bonington: A New York Private Collection, Paintings, Watercolours, and Drawings. New York: Privately Published, 2001. Wilton, Andrew. J. M. W. Turner, His Art and Life. New York: Rizzoli, 1979. Hughes, Sarah, ed. Light into Colour: Turner in the South-West. Exhibition catalogue. London: Tate Publishing, 2006. Clarke, Jay, ed. Landscape, Innovation, and Nostalgia: The Manton Collection of British Art. Williamstown, MA: The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2012.

Provenance

Benjamin Godfry Windus (by 1833); E. Atkinson; Marquess of Landsdowne (by 1908); sale, Christie’s, London, 22 July 1955, no. 83, sold to The Fine Art Society, Ltd.; [The Fine Art Society, Ltd., London, in 1955]; [Knoedler & Co., New York]; [Oscar & Peter Johnson, Ltd., sold to Manton, Oct. 1967]; Sir Edwin A. G. Manton, New York (1967–d. 2005); Manton Family Art Foundation (2005–2007, given to the Clark); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2007