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 Stoke Damerel Church with Plymouth and Plymouth Sound Beyond 1813

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Stoke Damerel Church with Plymouth and Plymouth Sound Beyond’ 1813
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 110 Recto:
Stoke Damerel Church with Plymouth and Plymouth Sound Beyond 1813
D09336
Turner Bequest CXXXI 110
Pencil on white wove paper, 95 x 157 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘110’ bottom right, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CXXXI – 110’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned horizontally, St Andrew’s Church, Stoke Damerel, is seen to the south with Stonehouse beyond and Plymouth Hoe and the Citadel to the left, with the Great Mew Stone on the left at the far south-eastern end of Plymouth Sound, and Mount Edgcumbe rising on the right. The church also appears on folios 3 recto and 99 recto (D09220, D09325). 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.
Verso:
Blank. Staining to the left matches that on folio 111 recto opposite (D09337).

Matthew Imms
April 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Stoke Damerel Church with Plymouth and Plymouth Sound Beyond 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-stoke-damerel-church-with-plymouth-and-plymouth-sound-beyond-r1148065, accessed 12 May 2024.