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 Hooe, the Hooe Lake and the Cattewater near Plymouth 1813

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Hooe, the Hooe Lake and the Cattewater near Plymouth’ 1813
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 60 Recto:
Hooe, the Hooe Lake and the Cattewater near Plymouth 1813
D09282
Turner Bequest CXXXI 60
Pencil on white wove paper, 95 x 157 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘60’ bottom right, descending vertically, and ‘6’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CXXXI – 60’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned horizontally, the view is looking north over Hooe and the Hooe Lake past Turnchapel on the left, across the Cattewater to the lower reaches of the River Plym (the Laira), east of Plymouth. The hills in the distance are on the south-western fringes of Dartmoor. There is a similar view on folio 58 recto (D09280). 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. Irregular brown stains match those on folio 61 recto opposite (D09283), but are slightly out of alignment, suggesting that the pages were not bound as they are now when the staining occurred.

Matthew Imms
April 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Hooe, the Hooe Lake and the Cattewater near Plymouth 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-hooe-the-hooe-lake-and-the-cattewater-near-plymouth-r1148010, accessed 26 April 2024.