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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner St Michael's Mount: The Western Range of the Castle 1811

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘St Michael's Mount: The Western Range of the Castle’ 1811
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 38 Recto:
St Michael’s Mount: The Western Range of the Castle 1811
D08920
Turner Bequest CXXV 37
Pencil on white wove paper, 166 x 208 mm
Watermark ‘Fellows | 1808’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘37’ bottom right (now faint)
Stamped in black ‘CXXV – 37’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing is a slight continuation from folio 37 verso opposite (D08919; CXXV 36a). It shows the coast of Mount’s Bay receding to the south-east, apparently with Cudden Point on the left and in the distance the profile of the headlands from Mullion Bay to the Lizard at the southern tip of Cornwall, some sixteen miles away.

Matthew Imms
February 2011

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘St Michael’s Mount: The Western Range of the Castle 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-the-western-range-of-the-castle-r1137403, accessed 25 April 2024.