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 Buildings on a Shoreline, Probably on the Hamoaze or Lower Tamar 1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Buildings on a Shoreline, Probably on the Hamoaze or Lower Tamar’ 1814
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 16 Recto:
Buildings on a Shoreline, Probably on the Hamoaze or Lower Tamar 1814
D09688
Turner Bequest CXXXIII 16
Pencil on white wove paper, 110 x 178 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘16’ bottom right, descending vertically, and ‘294’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CXXXIII 16’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The location of this shoreline has yet to be established, but the sketch falls among a number of studies of shipping 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). What appears to be a shoreline battery towards the right may be the same as that seen on folio 15 verso opposite (D09687).
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Matthew Imms
July 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Buildings on a Shoreline, Probably on the Hamoaze or Lower Tamar 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-buildings-on-a-shoreline-probably-on-the-hamoaze-or-lower-r1147239, accessed 17 July 2024.