'St Michael's Mount: The Southern Range of the Castle', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

St Michael's Mount: The Southern Range of the Castle

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

D08922

Turner Bequest CXXV 38

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 39 Recto:

St Michael’s Mount: The Southern Range of the Castle 1811

D08922
Turner Bequest CXXV 38

Pencil on white wove paper, 166 x 208 mm
Watermark ‘Fellows | 1808’
Stamped in black ‘CXXV – 38’ bottom right | top left, upside down

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

The main focus of this double-page sketch is the castle, on folio 38 verso opposite (D08921; CXXV 37a). Here the island’s rocky shoreline appears in the foreground, with the coast towards the Lizard to the south-east in the distance.

Technical notes:

There is some rubbing above the skyline.

Matthew Imms
February 2011

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

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Context

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Geographic location

British Isles

Southern England

Cornwall

Sketchbooks

1802-18 Academician and professor

Sketchbooks from the 1810s

Ivy Bridge to Penzance Sketchbook

Tate Collection

Gifts and bequests

Turner Bequest

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Joseph Mallord William TurnerSt Michael's Mount: The Southern Range of the Castle 1811

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