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 1811 > Devonshire Coast, No.1 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Plymouth: Mount Batten and Mount Edgcumbe from Cattedown 1811

Image 1 of 2
Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Plymouth: Mount Batten and Mount Edgcumbe from Cattedown’ 1811
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 178 Recto:
Plymouth: Mount Batten and Mount Edgcumbe from Cattedown 1811
D08694
Turner Bequest CXXIII 175
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 75 x 117 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘175’ top left, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CXXIII – 175’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The view appears to be west-south-west from the shore at Cattedown, looking between the masts on the right to the cylindrical tower of Mont Batten on its peninsula connected to Turnchapel to the south on the left, with Mount Edgcumbe across Plymouth Sound in the distance. The view is still just visible today between the later industrial buildings in the area, at about the point where the railway line crosses Cattedown Road. For other Plymouth views in this sketchbook and elsewhere, see under folio 3 verso (D08367).
Technical notes:
There is extensive offsetting from the ink inscription on folio 177 verso opposite (D08693; CXXIII 174a).

Matthew Imms
June 2011

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Plymouth: Mount Batten and Mount Edgcumbe from Cattedown 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-plymouth-mount-batten-and-mount-edgcumbe-from-cattedown-r1137172, accessed 24 April 2024.