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 Turnchapel, with Mount Batten and the Plymouth Citadel Beyond 1813

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Turnchapel, with Mount Batten and the Plymouth Citadel Beyond’ 1813
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 30 Recto:
Turnchapel, with Mount Batten and the Plymouth Citadel Beyond 1813
D09249
Turner Bequest CXXXI 30
Pencil on white wove paper, 95 x 157 mm
Part watermark ‘Ivy’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘30’ bottom right, descending vertically, and ‘6’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CXXXI – 30’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned horizontally, the view is from the shoreline at Turnchapel, looking west with Mount Batten at the centre and Plymouth’s Citadel outlined on the right across the Cattewater. The sketchbook was exhibited open at this page in the Light into Colour Turner exhibition at St Ives and Plymouth in 2006.1
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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Sketchbook noted in ‘List of Works’ in Sam Smiles, Light into Colour: Turner in the South West, exhibition catalogue, Tate St Ives 2006, p.55, but folio not specified; page reproduced on exhibition site, Tate Online, accessed 10 June 2014 http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-st-ives/exhibition/light-colour-turner-south-west/light-colour-landscape-art/light-0.
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Matthew Imms
April 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Turnchapel, with Mount Batten and the Plymouth Citadel Beyond 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-turnchapel-with-mount-batten-and-the-plymouth-citadel-beyond-r1147976, accessed 25 April 2024.