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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country 1813 > Plymouth, Hamoaze Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Great Mew Stone from Mount Edgcumbe 1813

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Great Mew Stone from Mount Edgcumbe’ 1813
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 26 Recto:
The Great Mew Stone from Mount Edgcumbe 1813
D09243
Turner Bequest CXXXI 26
Pencil on white wove paper, 95 x 157 mm
Part watermark ‘Mill | 812’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘26’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXXXI – 26’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned horizontally, the Great Mew Stone is seen to the south-east, beyond Plymouth Sound and Wembury Point, from Mount Edgcumbe (probably at Ravenness Point). A view to the north-east from here or nearby appears on folio 25 recto (D09242), with another view of the Mew Stone on folio 24 recto (D09241).
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, ‘The Great Mew Stone from Mount Edgcumbe 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-the-great-mew-stone-from-mount-edgcumbe-r1147970, accessed 25 April 2024.