'The rising squall, hot wells, from St. Vincent's rock, Bristol'
by JMW Turner; exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1793

Peter Cunningham: 'Memoir', preface to Burnet's 'Turner and his Works' 1852:

Evidence that 'The rising squall, hot wells, from St. Vincent's rock, Bristol' was an oil 'of 1793'

Cunningham called it:

'Rising Squall over St. Vincent's Rocks at Bristol'

Here is a short extract from pages 17 and 18. Cunningham's description, its context and its vocabulary leave little doubt that he is specifying an oil picture exhibited at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1793 which he called 'Rising Squall over St. Vincent's Rocks at Bristol' see Detailed Analysis

In this short extract Cunningham mentions two works by Turner. Previous to this extract he was writing about watercolour-drawings and introduces 'View of the Pantheon', a known watercolour. Then his vocabulary changes and he writes of a 'picture' called 'Rising Squall over St. Vincent's Rocks at Bristol' and compares Turner's work with Great oil painters. see Detailed Analysis