'Falmouth Harbour', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Falmouth Harbour

From Ivy Bridge to Penzance Sketchbook

Turner Bequest CXXV

Date 1811

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 166 x 208 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Reference

D08908

Turner Bequest CXXV 29

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Turner's sketchbooks

View this artwork in the Ivy Bridge to Penzance Sketchbook

Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 30 Recto:

Falmouth Harbour 1811

D08908
Turner Bequest CXXV 29

Pencil on white wove paper, 166 x 208 mm
Watermark ‘Fellows | 1808’
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXXV – 29’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

From the shore at the south-east end of Falmouth harbour, Arwenack Street recedes on the left towards the tower of the parish church of King Charles the Martyr. The old quay towards the centre survives, but the waterfront in the foreground has since undergone substantial redevelopment, and is now the site of the National Maritime Museum Cornwall, off Cambeltown Way. Turner’s viewpoint can be approximated in various places around the surrounding quays and car parks.

For other views in the area, see under folio 25 verso (D08901; CXXV 24a).

Verso:

Blank. There is some dark spotting.

Matthew Imms
February 2011

Read this catalogue entry in full

This catalogue entry is part of: David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, December 2012.