J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country 1811 > Devonshire Coast, No.1 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Wooded Landscape near Windsor; the Blockhouses at Fowey and Polruan 1811

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Wooded Landscape near Windsor; the Blockhouses at Fowey and Polruan’ 1811
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 12 Verso:
A Wooded Landscape near Windsor; the Blockhouses at Fowey and Polruan 1811
D08384
Turner Bequest CXXIII 12a
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 75 x 117 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Fowy’ top right and ‘Windsor’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Another drawing looking towards Windsor is on folio 11 verso (D08382). Turner passed to its south at the outset of his West Country journey (see the introduction to the tour), and mentions it in his poetry on folio 28 verso (D08414).
The rough sketch above shows the blockhouses at Fowey on the left and Polruan in the distance on the right, and was made a considerable time later on the westward leg of his journey. For a clearer view see folio 16 verso (D08392) and for others in and around Fowey see under folio 5 verso (D08371).

Matthew Imms
June 2011

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Wooded Landscape near Windsor; the Blockhouses at Fowey and Polruan 1811 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-wooded-landscape-near-windsor-the-blockhouses-at-fowey-and-r1136861, accessed 26 April 2024.