Introduction: Squall at St Vincent's Rock, Bristol: Evidence that the rock complex in this landscape was invented by JMW Turner

Squall at St Vincent's Rock, Bristol

Evidence that the rock complex in this landscape was invented by JMW Turner

• The environs of Hotwells, St. Vincent's Rock, Bristol (18th century to the present)
  A study of photographs, drawings and descriptive texts.
  It emerges that the rock complex painted by JMW Turner on D00389 is his own invention.
  Ibbetson's realistic and scientific drawing of the back view of Hotwells House in 1792 (left) shows no trace of the rock complex that Turner painted on D00389 (right).
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• Bristol Museum and Art Gallery online catalogue K6431
  A study of the images in the online catalogue of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery likewise produced images of Hotwells and St. Vincent's Rock without Turner's rock complex. More evidence that JMW Turner invented scenes during his visits to Bristol emerged in an exchange of e-mails with Bristol Museum which drew attention, in particular, to another invented scene from that period; K6431.
  "The dramatic view of the Avon mouth towards the Severn and South Wales appears to be captured from inside a large, dark cavern in the overgrown rock face of the Avon Gorge. It is in fact an amalgamation of two views: the slightly enlarged image of the cave interior located below Sea Walls, which still exists, and the west facing view taken from outside the cave."
  [http://museums.bristol.gov.uk/]

The rock complex on Turner's D00389 and its opposite view on 'Squall at St. Vincent's Rock, Bristol' was a feature invented by JMW Turner. The painter of 'Squall at St. Vincent's Rock, Bristol' must have had access to JMW Turner's work or Turner must have had access to 'Squall at St. Vincent's Rock, Bristol' or JMW Turner must have painted both.