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 and Yorkshire 1814-17 > Devon Rivers, No.2 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?The Shore of the Hamoaze around Plymouth Dock 1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?The Shore of the Hamoaze around Plymouth Dock’ 1814
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 21 Recto:
?The Shore of the Hamoaze around Plymouth Dock 1814
D09693
Turner Bequest CXXXIII 21
Pencil on white wove paper, 110 x 178 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘21’ bottom right, descending vertically, and ‘294’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CXXXIII 21’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Falling among a number of studies of hulks (decommissioned warships) and topographical sketches in the Hamoaze and lower reaches of the River Tamar north-west of Plymouth Sound between folios 3 recto and 29 recto (D09671–D09703), this and the sketches on folios 19 recto and 20 recto (D09691, D09692) have yet to be clearly identified.
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Matthew Imms
July 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘?The Shore of the Hamoaze around Plymouth Dock 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-the-shore-of-the-hamoaze-around-plymouth-dock-r1147244, accessed 22 November 2024.