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 Fowey Blockhouse and Church; Other Views on the Fowey Estuary 1811

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Fowey Blockhouse and Church; Other Views on the Fowey Estuary’ 1811
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 37 Verso:
Fowey Blockhouse and Church; Other Views on the Fowey Estuary 1811
D08432
Turner Bequest CXXIII 37a
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 75 x 117 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The main view shows the blockhouse on the Fowey side of the Fowey Estuary (compare folio 31 verso; D08420), looking north-east to the tower of St Fimbarrus’s Church. At the top right and bottom left are rough outlines of skylines and squarish buildings which are perhaps one or more of the blockhouses at Fowey and Polruan and the nearby St Catherine’s Castle. There seems also to be another smaller outline sketch of one of these subjects at the bottom left. For other views in and around Fowey see under folio 5 verso (D08371).

Matthew Imms
June 2011

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Fowey Blockhouse and Church; Other Views on the Fowey Estuary 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-fowey-blockhouse-and-church-other-views-on-the-fowey-estuary-r1136909, accessed 19 April 2024.