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 1813 > Plymouth, Hamoaze Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Plymouth Citadel and the Barbican from Mount Batten or Turnchapel 1813

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Plymouth Citadel and the Barbican from Mount Batten or Turnchapel’ 1813
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 17 Recto:
Plymouth Citadel and the Barbican from Mount Batten or Turnchapel 1813
D09234
Turner Bequest CXXXI 17
Pencil on white wove paper, 95 x 157 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘17’ bottom right, descending vertically, and ‘6’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CXXXI – 17’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned horizontally, the view appears to be north-west from the shore at Mount Batten or Turnchapel across the Cattewater to the Citadel, outlined on towards the left, and the waterfront houses of Plymouth’s Barbican.
The subjects as far as folio 127 recto (D09358) are all identified or presumed sites within a few miles in and around Plymouth, suggesting a series of fairly short excursions.
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Matthew Imms
April 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Plymouth Citadel and the Barbican from Mount Batten or Turnchapel 1813 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 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-plymouth-citadel-and-the-barbican-from-mount-batten-or-r1147961, accessed 18 April 2024.