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

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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘St Michael's Mount, Marazion and Mount's Bay’ 1811
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 31 Verso:
St Michael’s Mount, Marazion and Mount’s Bay 1811
D40816
Pencil on white wove paper, 166 x 208 mm
Watermark ‘Fellows | 1808’
Stamped in black ‘CXXV – 17’ top left, upside down (‘17’ crossed out in pencil)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This leaf is stamped ‘CXXV - 30’ on its recto (D08909; CXXV 30) with an unusual short dash, apparently having been first stamped ‘CXXV – 17’ with a long dash (matching most other stamps in the sketchbook) on the present page. Finberg’s 1909 entry for ‘[Page] 30’1 implies that the leaf was in its current position at that time, and it is unclear when it and CXXV 17/17a (D08886, D08887), originally stamped ‘CXXV – 30’, were exchanged.
The arrangement (in this much-dismembered and reassembled sketchbook) is correct to the extent that the slight drawing here, not recorded by Finberg, is a continuation of the main view of St Michael’s Mount and Mount’s Bay on folio 32 recto opposite (D08910; CXXV 31); see the entry for the latter for other views of the site.

Matthew Imms
February 2011

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A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.356, CXXV 30.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘St Michael’s Mount, Marazion and Mount’s Bay 1811 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 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-marazion-and-mounts-bay-r1137391, accessed 26 April 2024.