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 The Hamoaze, Looking South from Wilcove towards Mount Edgcumbe 1811

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Hamoaze, Looking South from Wilcove towards Mount Edgcumbe’ 1811
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 195 Verso:
The Hamoaze, Looking South from Wilcove towards Mount Edgcumbe 1811
D08718
Turner Bequest CXXIII 192a
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 75 x 117 mm
Part watermark ‘th | 6’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
There are sketches of warships or hulks, perhaps on the Hamoaze (the Tamar Estuary) near Mount Edgcumbe to the south, on folio 195 recto (D08717; CXXIII 192), and of Saltash on the Tamar to the north on folio 198 recto (D08721; CXXIII 195). Falling between them, the viewpoint of this and the drawing on folio 196 recto opposite (D08719; CXXIII 193) appears to be on or near the shore at Wilcove, north of Torpoint, Cornwall, with Turner here looking east across the Hamoaze to Plymouth Dock (later Devonport) and south-east to Mount Edgcumbe.
For other views in the Plymouth area in this sketchbook and elsewhere, see under folio 3 verso (D08367).

Matthew Imms
June 2011

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The Hamoaze, Looking South from Wilcove towards Mount Edgcumbe 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-the-hamoaze-looking-south-from-wilcove-towards-mount-r1137196, accessed 25 April 2024.