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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country 1813 > Plymouth, Hamoaze Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner St James the Great's Church, Antony, with the St Germans or Lynher River Beyond 1813

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘St James the Great's Church, Antony, with the St Germans or Lynher River Beyond’ 1813
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 123 Recto:
St James the Great’s Church, Antony, with the St Germans or Lynher River Beyond 1813
D09352
Turner Bequest CXXXI 123
Pencil on white wove paper, 95 x 157 mm
Watermark ‘Mill | 812’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘123’ bottom right, descending vertically, and ‘6’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CXXXI – 123’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The sketches between folios 117 verso and 126 recto (D09344, D09356) were made around Antony, Cornwall, a village south of the St Germans or Lynher River west of the River Tamar and Plymouth. With the page turned horizontally, here the view is from the churchyard of St James the Great, looking north down to the river. The tower is seen from a higher vantage point on folio 122 recto (D09351), and the church appears again on folio 124 recto (D09353). 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:
Some staining at the bottom left shows through from the verso.
Verso:
Blank. The staining mentioned above matches that on folio 124 recto opposite (D09353).

Matthew Imms
April 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘St James the Great’s Church, Antony, with the St Germans or Lynher River 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-st-james-the-greats-church-antony-with-the-st-germans-or-r1148082, accessed 10 May 2024.