J.M.W. Turner in Bridport; Bridport Museum until 28 September, 2019

29 June until 28 September (event details)

From the Exhibition Catalogue (above)

From my lecture on Art and the Dorset Landscape at the Dorset Country Museum, 30 April 2014 (based on the draft of my unpublished book with the same title, 2012-2013):

SLIDE 8 - After Turner, Bridport, Dorsetshire, Picturesque Views on the Southern Coast of England, 1826.

"Eric Shanes (1981) writes "In Bridport he demonstrates the town's principal product (rope) and by so doing creates a line that unifies the work". He adds that "Turner... shows the rope being used by men warping a brig into the harbour. David Burnett describes the image as "Turner's dramatic but romantic interpretation of a shipwreck at West Bay, Bridport". I consulted David Marler, a nautical expert who shares Burnett's opinion that this is a shipwreck, on account of the ship's broadside position, its rigging, the direction of the wind, the long lines from the waist of the ship sent downwind, and other factors such as the waves".

West Bay/Bridport? Tate.