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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner St Catherine's Castle and Fowey Harbour 1811

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘St Catherine's Castle and Fowey Harbour’ 1811
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 20 Verso:
St Catherine’s Castle and Fowey Harbour 1811
D08891
Turner Bequest CXXV 19a
Pencil on white wove paper, 166 x 208 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
St Catherine’s Castle is seen from the cliffs above Penventinue Cove, looking east across the harbour to Polruan, with the blockhouse on the left and the ruin of St Saviour’s Chapel at the summit of the distant hill. The view continues a little way onto folio 21 recto opposite (D08892; CXXV 20), where the Fowey blockhouse and the distant tower of St Fimbarrus’s Church appear to the north-east.
There is another view of the castle from nearby in the contemporary Devonshire Coast, No.1 sketchbook (Tate D08390; Turner Bequest CXXIII 15a). The history and setting of the fortifications, as well as other Fowey views, are discussed under folio 19 verso (D08889; CXXV 18a).

Matthew Imms
February 2011

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘St Catherine’s Castle and Fowey Harbour 1811 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 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-catherines-castle-and-fowey-harbour-r1137372, accessed 25 April 2024.