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 Wembury Church and the Coast towards Gara Point 1813

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Wembury Church and the Coast towards Gara Point’ 1813
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 56 Recto:
Wembury Church and the Coast towards Gara Point 1813
D09278
Turner Bequest CXXXI 56
Pencil on white wove paper, 95 x 157 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘56’ bottom right, descending vertically, and ‘6’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CXXXI – 56’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is one of a sequence between folios 53 recto and 57 recto (D09275, D09279), showing the Great Mew Stone and the adjacent mainland south-east of Plymouth. With the page turned horizontally, here St Werburgh’s Church, Wembury is seen from the hill inland, looking south-east to the headland terminating at Gara Point across the mouth of the River Yealm beyond. 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.
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Matthew Imms
April 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Wembury Church and the Coast towards Gara Point 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-wembury-church-and-the-coast-towards-gara-point-r1148006, accessed 26 April 2024.