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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country and Yorkshire 1814-17 > Devon Rivers, No.2 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Hulks and Shipping in the Hamoaze with Saltash in the Distance 1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Hulks and Shipping in the Hamoaze with Saltash in the Distance’ 1814
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 23 Recto:
Hulks and Shipping in the Hamoaze with Saltash in the Distance 1814
D09695
Turner Bequest CXXXIII 23
Pencil on white wove paper, 110 x 178 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘23’ bottom right, descending vertically, and ‘294’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CXXXIII 23’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Lindsay Stainton has identified this drawing, crowded with vessels at anchor in the Hamoaze with Saltash on the horizon to the north, as the basis of the watercolour Saltash, Cornwall of 1825 (British Museum, London),1 engraved in 1827 for the series Picturesque Views in England and Wales.2 There is a similar view on folio 25 recto (D09697), but the most direct source for the watercolour seems to be the sketch on folio 26 recto (D09698, under which other views are mentioned), from the same direction but nearer to Saltash itself.
1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.392 no.794, reproduced.
2
Stainton 1985, p.49.
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Matthew Imms
July 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Hulks and Shipping in the Hamoaze with Saltash in the Distance 1814 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 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-hulks-and-shipping-in-the-hamoaze-with-saltash-in-the-r1147246, accessed 22 November 2024.