'St Michael's Mount, Marazion and Mount's Bay', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

St Michael's Mount, Marazion and Mount's Bay

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

D40816

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 31 Verso:

St Michael’s Mount, Marazion and Mount’s Bay 1811

D40816

Pencil on white wove paper, 166 x 208 mm
Watermark ‘Fellows | 1808’
Stamped in black ‘CXXV – 17’ top left, upside down (‘17’ crossed out in pencil)

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

This leaf is stamped ‘CXXV - 30’ on its recto (D08909; CXXV 30) with an unusual short dash, apparently having been first stamped ‘CXXV – 17’ with a long dash (matching most other stamps in the sketchbook) on the present page. Finberg’s 1909 entry for ‘[Page] 30’1 implies that the leaf was in its current position at that time, and it is unclear when it and CXXV 17/17a (D08886, D08887), originally stamped ‘CXXV – 30’, were exchanged.

The arrangement (in this much-dismembered and reassembled sketchbook) is correct to the extent that the slight drawing here, not recorded by Finberg, is a continuation of the main view of St Michael’s Mount and Mount’s Bay on folio 32 recto opposite (D08910; CXXV 31); see the entry for the latter for other views of the site.

Matthew Imms
February 2011

A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.356, CXXV 30.

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.