Live Auction 6106Christie's Interiors
Christie’s roundel
Lot 814

William Turner of Oxford, O.W.S. (1782-1862)

Figures on the beach before the harbour wall, Clovelly, Devon

Closed29 May 2012

Estimate

GBP 2,000–3,000

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William Turner of Oxford, O.W.S. (1782-1862)
Figures on the beach before the harbour wall, Clovelly, Devon
with inscription 'W. Turner/Oxford' (on the reverse)
pencil, pen and brown ink and watercolour with gum arabic and with scratching out, on paper
13 x 21 7/8 in. (33 x 55.5 cm.)

Specialist note

Turner exhibited many views of the coast of North Devon and Cornwall in the 1820s and 1830s. A view entitled On the coast near Clovelly, Devon was exhibited at the Old Water-Colour Society in 1827, no. 189 and Clovelly, North Devon in 1833, no. 57: this watercolour is probably now in the Yale Center for British Art. Tim Wilcox in his exhibition catalogue, William Turner of Oxford (1789-1862) also refers to a watercolour depicting more of the village of Clovelly, seen from the edge of the sea, in the Huntington Library.