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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Readymoney Cove, Fowey, with St Catherine's Castle 1811

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Readymoney Cove, Fowey, with St Catherine's Castle’ 1811
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 21 Verso:
Readymoney Cove, Fowey, with St Catherine’s Castle 1811
D08893
Turner Bequest CXXV 20a
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
Turner looks south-east from Readymoney Cove, south of Fowey, across the mouth of the Fowey Estuary to the sea. St Catherine’s Castle is on the headland to the right of centre (but now obscured by trees from this point), with the ruined St Saviour’s Chapel on the skyline on the Polruan side between the trees on the left.
This is the last of a sequence of Fowey views, commenced on folio 19 verso (D08889; CXXV 18a), under which the history of the castle and other Fowey views are discussed.

Matthew Imms
February 2011

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Readymoney Cove, Fowey, with St Catherine’s Castle 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-readymoney-cove-fowey-with-st-catherines-castle-r1137374, accessed 20 April 2024.