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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner St Michael's Mount: The Southern Range of the Castle 1811

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘St Michael's Mount: The Southern Range of the Castle’ 1811
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 39 Recto:
St Michael’s Mount: The Southern Range of the Castle 1811
D08922
Turner Bequest CXXV 38
Pencil on white wove paper, 166 x 208 mm
Watermark ‘Fellows | 1808’
Stamped in black ‘CXXV – 38’ bottom right | top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The main focus of this double-page sketch is the castle, on folio 38 verso opposite (D08921; CXXV 37a). Here the island’s rocky shoreline appears in the foreground, with the coast towards the Lizard to the south-east in the distance.
Technical notes:
There is some rubbing above the skyline.

Matthew Imms
February 2011

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘St Michael’s Mount: The Southern Range of the 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-st-michaels-mount-the-southern-range-of-the-castle-r1137405, accessed 19 September 2024.