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 Plymouth from the East 1813

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Plymouth from the East’ 1813
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 80 Recto:
Plymouth from the East 1813
D09304
Turner Bequest CXXXI 80
Pencil on white wove paper, 95 x 157 mm
Watermark ‘Ivy’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘80’ bottom right, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CXXXI – 80’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned horizontally, in this sketch Turner focuses on the wooded foreground, but the faint distance shows the Plymouth area to the west, in common with adjacent studies, with what appears to be Mount Edgcumbe on the horizon at the centre. 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.
Technical notes:
At the bottom right the very edge of the page is affected by a brown fingerprint, continuing from the folio 79 recto (D09303).

Matthew Imms
April 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Plymouth from the East 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-plymouth-from-the-east-r1148032, accessed 25 April 2024.