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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner St Michael's Mount: The Northern Range of the Castle, with Marazion Beyond 1811

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘St Michael's Mount: The Northern Range of the Castle, with Marazion Beyond’ 1811
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 35 Verso:
St Michael’s Mount: The Northern Range of the Castle, with Marazion Beyond 1811
D08916
Turner Bequest CXXV 34a
Pencil on white wove paper, 166 x 208 mm
Watermark ‘Fellows | 1808’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing is a slight continuation from folio 36 recto opposite (D08917; CXXV 35). It shows the harbour buildings below the north side of the island and the western arm of the harbour, with Marazion on the mainland beyond.
Technical notes:
There is some brown spotting.

Matthew Imms
February 2011

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘St Michael’s Mount: The Northern Range of the Castle, with Marazion Beyond 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-michaels-mount-the-northern-range-of-the-castle-with-r1137399, accessed 23 April 2024.