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 and Yorkshire 1814-17 > Review at Portsmouth Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Plymouth Sound 1814

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Plymouth Sound’ 1814
Folio 19 Recto:
Plymouth Sound 1814
D10005
Turner Bequest CXXXVI 19
Pencil on white wove paper, 82 x 119 mm
Inscribed in red ink ‘19’ bottom left, descending vertically (smudged)
Stamped in black ‘CXXXVI – 19’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned horizontally, this is a slight pencil outline of the cliffs along the coastline of Plymouth Sound.
See folios 17 to 23 recto (D10003–D10009) for related views.
The verso, D40832, is a similar view.

Vanessa Otim
March 2025

How to cite

Vanessa Otim, ‘Plymouth Sound 1814’, catalogue entry, March 2025, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, July 2026, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/plymouth-sound-r1213909, accessed 31 July 2026.