Joseph Mallord William Turner, R.A.

William Bernard Cooke (1778-1855) who, along with his brother, George (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, London, Christie’s, 16 May 1896, lot 24,

with Agnew’s, London (stock number 1814),

by whom 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 Arthur 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 1928, 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, 2^nd 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, vol. 110, December 2008, the magazine’s front-cover (1909 colour 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