Joseph Mallord William Turner

St Michael’s Mount

1811

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: Ivy Bridge to Penzance Sketchbook
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 166 x 208 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D08912
Turner Bequest CXXV 32

Catalogue entry

The mount is seen to the south from the mainland north-west of Marazion, with the island’s harbour spread out below the castle. The drawing continues a little way onto folio 32 verso opposite (D08911; CXXV 31a).

Eric Shanes has noted the present page as a source for the watercolour St Michael’s Mount, Cornwall of about 1812 (private collection),1 engraved in 1814 for the Picturesque Views on the Southern Coast of England 2 (see the concordance of the series in the 1811 tour introduction). There is a similar view on folios 33 verso–34 recto (D08913, D08914; CXXV 32a–33).

For other views of the site, see under folio 32 recto (D08910; CXXV 31).

Matthew Imms
February 2011

1

Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.350 no.445, reproduced.

2

Shanes 1981, p.152.

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