'St Michael's Mount', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

St Michael's Mount

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

D08912

Turner Bequest CXXV 32

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 33 Recto:

St Michael’s Mount 1811

D08912
Turner Bequest CXXV 32

Pencil on white wove paper, 166 x 208 mm
Watermark ‘Fellows | 1808’
Inscribed in pencil ‘32’ top left, upside down
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom left
Stamped in black ‘CXXV – 32’ top left, upside down

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

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

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

Shanes 1981, p.152.

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