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 Plymouth: St Andrew's Church, Drake's Island and Mount Edgcumbe 1813

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Plymouth: St Andrew's Church, Drake's Island and Mount Edgcumbe’ 1813
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 100 Recto:
Plymouth: St Andrew’s Church, Drake’s Island and Mount Edgcumbe 1813
D09326
Turner Bequest CXXXI 100
Pencil on white wove paper, 95 x 157 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘100’ bottom right, descending vertically, and ‘6’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CXXXI – 100’ 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 north-east, with the north-west tip of Drake’s Island aligned with Penlee Point beyond Mount Edgcumbe in the distance on the right. The open expanse in the middle distance is the Hoe. Turner’s viewpoint is the Tavistock road, now North Hill, but later developments impede the view today. 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.
Technical notes:
Some brown staining at the bottom matches that on folio 99 verso opposite (verso of D09325).
Verso:
Blank

Matthew Imms
April 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Plymouth: St Andrew’s Church, Drake’s Island and 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-plymouth-st-andrews-church-drakes-island-and-mount-edgcumbe-r1148055, accessed 23 April 2024.