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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country 1813 > Plymouth, Hamoaze Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Forder, with Trematon Castle Above 1813

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Forder, with Trematon Castle Above’ 1813
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 38 Recto:
Forder, with Trematon Castle Above 1813
D09257
Turner Bequest CXXXI 38
Pencil on white wove paper, 95 x 157 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘38’ bottom right, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CXXXI – 38’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The sketches between folio 36 recto (D09255) and folio 43 recto (D09263) were made in the vicinity of Trematon Castle, above the St Germans or Lynher River west of the River Tamar and Plymouth. The subjects as far as folio 127 recto (D09358) are all identified or presumed sites within a few miles in and around Plymouth, suggesting a series of fairly short excursions. With the page turned horizontally, Turner’s viewpoint here is the east bank of the top end of Forder Lake, with the castle above to the west. What is now The Old Mill is at the bottom right, with the foot of the lane leading up Castle Hill on the left. There is a similar view on folio 37 recto (D09256).
Anne Lyles has noted this sketch as a source for the watercolour Trematon Castle, Cornwall of about 1828 (private collection),1 engraved in 1830 for the series Picturesque Views in England and Wales, although the viewpoint is different; see under folio 43 recto (D09263).

Matthew Imms
April 2014

1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.396 no.822.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Forder, with Trematon Castle Above 1813 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-forder-with-trematon-castle-above-r1147984, accessed 20 September 2024.