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 St Winnow from the River Fowey 1811

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘St Winnow from the River Fowey’ 1811
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 234 Verso:
St Winnow from the River Fowey 1811
D08776
Turner Bequest CXXIII 231a
Pencil on white wove printing paper, 75 x 117 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘St Winnow’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The square tower of St Winnow’s Church in the hamlet of the same name is shown in outline among trees above the east bank of the River Fowey, south of Lostwithiel, near which Turner had sketched Restormel Castle (see under folio 7 recto; D08374), and north of Fowey itself (see under folio 5 verso; D08371).

Matthew Imms
June 2011

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘St Winnow from the River Fowey 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-st-winnow-from-the-river-fowey-r1137255, accessed 19 April 2024.