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 25 Recto:
Hulks and Shipping in the Hamoaze with Saltash in the Distance 1814
D09697
Turner Bequest CXXXIII 25
Pencil on white wove paper, 110 x 178 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘25’ bottom right, descending vertically, and ‘294’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CXXXIII 25’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Saltash is seen on the skyline north up the Hamoaze, as in similar sketches on folios 23 recto and 26 recto (D09695 and D09698, under the second of which other views are mentioned). There is a prominent, black-hatted figure, perhaps a Plymouth sketching companion of Turner’s, seated among the bushes in the foreground. There is another such figure on folio 29 recto (D09703).
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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-r1147248, accessed 22 November 2024.