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 Falmouth Harbour 1811

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Falmouth Harbour’ 1811
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 112 Verso:
Falmouth Harbour 1811
D08576
Turner Bequest CXXIII 109a
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 75 x 117 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Eric Shanes has noted this sketch, along with that on folio 114 recto (D08579; CXXIII 111), as a source for the watercolour Falmouth Harbour of about 1812–14 (Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight),1 engraved in 1816 for the Picturesque Views on the Southern Coast of England2 (see the concordance of the series in the 1811 tour introduction).
As with the complementary study on folio 92 verso (D08538; CXXIII 89a), the view is south-east across Carrick Roads towards Pendennis Castle on the right; St Mawes lies beyond to the left. For other views in and around Falmouth see under folio 7 verso (D08375).

Matthew Imms
June 2011

1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, pp.351–2 no.455, reproduced.
2
Shanes 1981, p.152, as CXXIII ‘110’.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Falmouth Harbour 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-falmouth-harbour-r1137053, accessed 22 September 2024.