.jpg?w=1)
Lot Essay
The indistinct inscription has been read 'Hasbro Sands' or 'Hasboro Sands', and the subject is probably to be identified with the small island off the coast of Norfolk, near Happisburg, pronounced 'Haysborough'; this lies between Crome and Great Yarmouth. It was engraved by J.C. Allen (d. 1831) as one of eight coastal views on the east coast of England; three of the engravings were left unfinished and a number of watercolours can be linked with the series (Wilton, op. cit., pp. 404-6, nos. 896-905).
The series is usually thought to have been done for a proposed sequel to the Picturesque Views of the Southern Coast, 1814-20 (see Rawlinson, loc. cit., Wilton, loc. cit., and Eric Shanes, East Coast of England, Picturesque Views on the, E. Joll, M. Butlin, and L. Herrmann, The Oxford Companion to J.M.W. Turner, Oxford, 2001, p. 82). Rawlinson in 1908 misidentified the East Coast series on first publication but amended this in the Corrigenda to vol. I, published in vol. II in 1913.
Another suggestion was that they might have been linked to the Crabbe series: Finden's Landscape Illustrations to Mr Murray's First Complete and Uniform Edition of the Life and Poetical Works of Rev. George Crabbe. This series was advertised to appear in 1834, but was never realised. Turner had been a major contributor to Finden and Murray's earlier series of landscape illustrations to Murray's Life and Works of the Byron, and the Crabbe series was announced as having engaged the sevices of 'the most eminent of our painters' and to be 'as nearly as possible on the model' of the Byron series. Two vignettes from the same series belonged to Turner's friend Monro of Novar and were confidently described as 'Two Illustrations to Crabbe' in his sale catalogue of 1865. Jan Piggott now thinks, however, that this project was probably seen by Turner as a second chance to use these East Coast vignettes and landscape watercolours.
Ian Warrell also discusses the East Coast series in connection with the Loire series (Turner on the Loire, London, 1997, part 3, note 1). If they are indeed for the East Coast series, Warrell writes that they would have to date from before the end of 1826, when negotiations between Turner and Cooke broke down irrevocably, at which point Turner pursued the coast project. Warrell continues 'However, the group of bluepaper works are stylistically as accomplished as the best of the Loire series, which are dated 1828-30. As the blue paper was a relatively new material for Turner in 1826, it seem unlikely that he could have produced such sophisticated works so soon after taking up this unfamiliar medium.'
Lewis Loyd (1811-1891) was cousin of the Samuel Jones Loyd, 1st and last Lord Overstone (1796-1883), who, having no family of his own, disposed of his estate Wickham Park to Lewis in about 1853, when he moved to Overtstone Park, Northamptonshire. Loyd built Monks Orchard on the estate, a magnificent mansion house, completed in 1854. He was a successful banker who worked for Jones, Loyd and Co., the banking house originally set up in Manchester after the marriage of Lewis Loyd Senior (his Lord Overstone's father) to Sarah Jones. Loyd put together a magnificent collection of English pictures that included eleven watercolours by Turner and a number of highly important Old Masters with works by Cuyp, De Hooch, Ruisdael, Claude and Murillo. The 1937 sale at Christie's of 143 lots made over 50,000 gns. The Bethlem Hospital is now housed on the site of Monk's Orchard.
We are grateful to Dr Jan Piggott for his help with this catalogue entry.
The series is usually thought to have been done for a proposed sequel to the Picturesque Views of the Southern Coast, 1814-20 (see Rawlinson, loc. cit., Wilton, loc. cit., and Eric Shanes, East Coast of England, Picturesque Views on the, E. Joll, M. Butlin, and L. Herrmann, The Oxford Companion to J.M.W. Turner, Oxford, 2001, p. 82). Rawlinson in 1908 misidentified the East Coast series on first publication but amended this in the Corrigenda to vol. I, published in vol. II in 1913.
Another suggestion was that they might have been linked to the Crabbe series: Finden's Landscape Illustrations to Mr Murray's First Complete and Uniform Edition of the Life and Poetical Works of Rev. George Crabbe. This series was advertised to appear in 1834, but was never realised. Turner had been a major contributor to Finden and Murray's earlier series of landscape illustrations to Murray's Life and Works of the Byron, and the Crabbe series was announced as having engaged the sevices of 'the most eminent of our painters' and to be 'as nearly as possible on the model' of the Byron series. Two vignettes from the same series belonged to Turner's friend Monro of Novar and were confidently described as 'Two Illustrations to Crabbe' in his sale catalogue of 1865. Jan Piggott now thinks, however, that this project was probably seen by Turner as a second chance to use these East Coast vignettes and landscape watercolours.
Ian Warrell also discusses the East Coast series in connection with the Loire series (Turner on the Loire, London, 1997, part 3, note 1). If they are indeed for the East Coast series, Warrell writes that they would have to date from before the end of 1826, when negotiations between Turner and Cooke broke down irrevocably, at which point Turner pursued the coast project. Warrell continues 'However, the group of bluepaper works are stylistically as accomplished as the best of the Loire series, which are dated 1828-30. As the blue paper was a relatively new material for Turner in 1826, it seem unlikely that he could have produced such sophisticated works so soon after taking up this unfamiliar medium.'
Lewis Loyd (1811-1891) was cousin of the Samuel Jones Loyd, 1st and last Lord Overstone (1796-1883), who, having no family of his own, disposed of his estate Wickham Park to Lewis in about 1853, when he moved to Overtstone Park, Northamptonshire. Loyd built Monks Orchard on the estate, a magnificent mansion house, completed in 1854. He was a successful banker who worked for Jones, Loyd and Co., the banking house originally set up in Manchester after the marriage of Lewis Loyd Senior (his Lord Overstone's father) to Sarah Jones. Loyd put together a magnificent collection of English pictures that included eleven watercolours by Turner and a number of highly important Old Masters with works by Cuyp, De Hooch, Ruisdael, Claude and Murillo. The 1937 sale at Christie's of 143 lots made over 50,000 gns. The Bethlem Hospital is now housed on the site of Monk's Orchard.
We are grateful to Dr Jan Piggott for his help with this catalogue entry.