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 The Hooe Lake and Plymouth from Oreston 1813

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Hooe Lake and Plymouth from Oreston’ 1813
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 93 Recto:
The Hooe Lake and Plymouth from Oreston 1813
D09319
Turner Bequest CXXXI 93
Pencil on white wove paper, 95 x 157 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Hoo [sic] Lake’ centre left
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘93’ bottom right, descending vertically, and ‘6’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CXXXI – 93’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned horizontally, Turner’s viewpoint is in the Oreston area, looking down on the Hooe Lake, an inlet from the Cattewater, and west towards the tower at Mount Batten at the centre, with Mount Edgcumbe beyond across Plymouth Sound, and the Citadel on the skyline towards the right. 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:
There is a small hole through the sheet at the bottom right, surrounded by staining.
Verso:
Blank

Matthew Imms
April 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The Hooe Lake and Plymouth from Oreston 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-the-hooe-lake-and-plymouth-from-oreston-r1148047, accessed 25 April 2024.