J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country 1813 > Plymouth, Hamoaze Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Drake's Island and Plymouth Citadel from Mount Edgcumbe 1813

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Drake's Island and Plymouth Citadel from Mount Edgcumbe’ 1813
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 25 Recto:
Drake’s Island and Plymouth Citadel from Mount Edgcumbe 1813
D09242
Turner Bequest CXXXI 25
Pencil on white wove paper, 95 x 157 mm
Part watermark ‘Mill | 812’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘25’ bottom right, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CXXXI – 25’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned horizontally, Drake’s Island and the Citadel beyond are seen to the north-east across Plymouth Sound, from Ravenness Point, Mount Edgcumbe. Views to the south-east from here or nearby appear on folios 24 recto and 26 recto (D09241, D09243). The subjects as far as folio 127 recto (D09358) are all identified or presumed sites within a few miles in and around Plymouth, suggesting a series of fairly short excursions.
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Matthew Imms
April 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Drake’s Island and Plymouth Citadel from Mount Edgcumbe 1813 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-drakes-island-and-plymouth-citadel-from-mount-edgcumbe-r1147969, accessed 22 November 2024.