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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country 1811 > Devonshire Coast, No.1 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Fore Street, Redruth, with Carn Brea in the Distance 1811

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Fore Street, Redruth, with Carn Brea in the Distance’ 1811
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 236 Verso:
Fore Street, Redruth, with Carn Brea in the Distance 1811
D08780
Turner Bequest CXXIII 233a
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 75 x 117 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The viewpoint appears to Fore Street, Redruth, looking west to Carn Brea Castle on the skyline beyond the town. The clock tower on the left was replaced in 1828 and later heightened;1 an engraving of 1858 shows a similar view of the Cornish town.2 The view on the recto (D08779) possibly shows a mine or quarry in the area, and there is another view of the hill and castle in the contemporary Cornwall and Devon sketchbook (D41325; Turner Bequest CXXV a 46).

Matthew Imms
June 2011

1
See ‘Redruth Town Trail’, Cornwall: Chycor, accessed 15 June 2011, http://www.chycor.co.uk/redruth/page2.htm.
2
Reproduced at ‘Redruth Town Trail: The Early Days’, Cornwall: Chycor, accessed 15 June 2011, http://www.chycor.co.uk/redruth/early.htm.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Fore Street, Redruth, with Carn Brea in the Distance 1811 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-fore-street-redruth-with-carn-brea-in-the-distance-r1137259, accessed 05 February 2025.