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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country 1811 > Devonshire Coast, No.1 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner St Michael's Mount and Mount's Bay 1811

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘St Michael's Mount and Mount's Bay’ 1811
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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St Michael’s Mount and Mount’s Bay 1811
D08715
Turner Bequest CXXIII 190a
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 75 x 117 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
St Michael’s Mount is seen from the east, while Penzance and the north-west side of Mount’s Bay lie beyond, stretching west to Kemyel Point. The viewpoint is on or beside the road from Helston and Falmouth, now known as Turnpike Road at this point.
There is a more detailed drawing from a similar viewpoint in the contemporary Ivy Bridge to Penzance sketchbook (Tate D08910; Turner Bequest CXXV 31), under which the history of the site and the many other studies of the Mount and its setting in that book are discussed. Views in the Cornwall and Devon sketchbook, used on the same tour, are mentioned in the entry for Tate D41282 (Turner Bequest CXXV a 7).

Matthew Imms
June 2011

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘St Michael’s Mount and Mount’s Bay 1811 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-st-michaels-mount-and-mounts-bay-r1137193, accessed 16 April 2024.