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 Wembury Church and the Great Mew Stone 1813

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Wembury Church and the Great Mew Stone’ 1813
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 57 Recto:
Wembury Church and the Great Mew Stone 1813
D09279
Turner Bequest CXXXI 57
Pencil on white wove paper, 95 x 157 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘57’ bottom right, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CXXXI – 57’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned horizontally, St Werburgh’s Church, Wembury, is seen from the north-east, with the Great Mew Stone across Wembury Bay beyond. This is the last of a sequence beginning on folio 53 recto (D09275), showing the Mew Stone and the adjacent mainland south-east of Plymouth. 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.
Verso:
Blank. A brown stain matches one on folio 58 recto opposite (D09280).

Matthew Imms
April 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Wembury Church and the Great Mew Stone 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-wembury-church-and-the-great-mew-stone-r1148007, accessed 23 April 2024.