'St Catherine's Castle, Fowey', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

St Catherine's Castle, Fowey

From Devonshire Coast, No.1 Sketchbook

Turner Bequest CXXIII

Date 1811

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 75 x 117 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D08388

Turner Bequest CXXIII 14 a

View this artwork by appointment, at Tate Britain's Prints and Drawings Rooms

Turner's sketchbooks

View this artwork in the Devonshire Coast, No.1 Sketchbook

Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 14 Verso:

St Catherine’s Castle, Fowey 1811

D08388
Turner Bequest CXXIII 14a

Pencil on white wove writing paper, 75 x 117 mm

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

The view is south-west along the shore at Fowey past trees and what appear to be small buildings in the neighbourhood of the Fowey blockhouse, towards St Catherine’s point and the ruined castle of the same name, an artillery fort dating from about the 1530s.1 There is a closer study of the building on folio 15 verso (D08390); for other views in and around Fowey see under folio 5 verso (D08371).

Matthew Imms
June 2011

See [Adèle Campbell (ed.)], Heritage Unlocked: Guide to Free [English Heritage] Sites in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, London 2004, pp.42–5.

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.