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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Trematon Castle across the St Germans or Lynher River from Antony 1813

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 117 Verso:
Trematon Castle across the St Germans or Lynher River from Antony 1813
D09344
Turner Bequest CXXXI 117a
Pencil on white wove paper, 157 x 95 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The sketches between here and folio 126 recto (D09356) were made around Antony, Cornwall, a village south of the St Germans or Lynher River west of the River Tamar and Plymouth. The present drawing continues on folio 118 recto opposite (D09345); the view is from near St James the Great’s Church, looking north-east over the village and river to the profile of Trematon Castle above Antony Passage on the left in the distance. The drawings between folios 36 recto and 43 recto (D09255, D09263) were made in the vicinity of the castle. 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.

Matthew Imms
April 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Trematon Castle across the St Germans or Lynher River from Antony 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-trematon-castle-across-the-st-germans-or-lynher-river-from-r1148074, accessed 16 April 2024.