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 Ramparts at Plymouth Dock 1813

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ramparts at Plymouth Dock’ 1813
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 96 Verso:
Ramparts at Plymouth Dock 1813
D40580
Pencil on white wove paper, 95 x 157 mm
Watermark ‘Mill | 811’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This slight drawing, made with the page turned horizontally, was not recorded by Finberg in his 1909 Inventory listing of this sketchbook.1 It appears to relate to the view of Plymouth on folio 97 recto opposite (D09323).

Matthew Imms
April 2014

1
See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.369.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Ramparts at Plymouth Dock 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-ramparts-at-plymouth-dock-r1148051, accessed 26 November 2024.