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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country and Yorkshire 1814-17 > Devon Rivers, No.2 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Fort and Battery on a Headland, Probably on the Hamoaze or Lower Tamar 1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Fort and Battery on a Headland, Probably on the Hamoaze or Lower Tamar’ 1814
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 15 Verso:
A Fort and Battery on a Headland, Probably on the Hamoaze or Lower Tamar 1814
D09687
Turner Bequest CXXXIII 15a
Pencil on white wove paper, 110 x 178 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Road’ centre left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The location of these fortifications has not been established, but this sketch falls among a number of studies of shipping and topographical sketches in the Hamoaze and lower reaches of the River Tamar north-west of Plymouth Sound between folios 3 recto and 29 recto (D09671–D09703). What appears to be a shoreline battery on the left may be the same as the one seen on folio 16 recto opposite (D09688).

Matthew Imms
July 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Fort and Battery on a Headland, Probably on the Hamoaze or Lower Tamar 1814 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-fort-and-battery-on-a-headland-probably-on-the-hamoaze-or-r1147238, accessed 26 April 2024.