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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country 1813 > Plymouth, Hamoaze Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Shipping in Plymouth Sound off Mount Batten, with Mount Edgcumbe Beyond 1813

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Shipping in Plymouth Sound off Mount Batten, with Mount Edgcumbe Beyond’ 1813
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 15 Recto:
Shipping in Plymouth Sound off Mount Batten, with Mount Edgcumbe Beyond 1813
D09232
Turner Bequest CXXXI 15
Pencil on white wove paper, 95 x 157 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Corn’ bottom left
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘15’ bottom right, descending vertically, and ‘6’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CXXXI – 15’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned horizontally, Turner’s view is west from low on the Mount Batten side of Plymouth Sound, looking towards Mount Edgcumbe, with Drake’s Island indicated below it at the centre beyond the many small craft moored on the near side. The drawing on folio 16 recto (D09233) shows the distant coast continuing to the south-west, to the left of the present view.
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, ‘Shipping in Plymouth Sound off Mount Batten, with Mount Edgcumbe Beyond 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-shipping-in-plymouth-sound-off-mount-batten-with-mount-r1147959, accessed 25 November 2024.