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 ?Turnchapel from the Cattewater 1813

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Turnchapel from the Cattewater’ 1813
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 12 Recto:
?Turnchapel from the Cattewater 1813
D09229
Turner Bequest CXXXI 12
Pencil on white wove paper, 95 x 157 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘12’ bottom right, descending vertically, and ‘6’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CXXXI – 12’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This and the two subsequent sketches on folios 13 recto and 14 recto (D09230, D09231), coming between views from nearby Mount Batten, probably show Turnchapel, across the Cattewater from Plymouth, looking east, with the page turned horizontally.
Eric Shanes has related this drawing to a ‘colour beginning’ (Tate D25366; Turner Bequest CCLXIII 244) which he describes as ‘Near Plymouth’;1 Finberg tentatively identified the watercolour as showing ‘Mount Edgcumbe (?)’.2
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.
1
Shanes 1997, pp.94, 102.
2
Finberg 1909, II, p.833.
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Matthew Imms
April 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘?Turnchapel from the Cattewater 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-turnchapel-from-the-cattewater-r1147956, accessed 21 November 2024.