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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Mount Batten and Plymouth from the East 1813

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Mount Batten and Plymouth from the East’ 1813
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 238 Verso:
Mount Batten and Plymouth from the East 1813
D09402
Turner Bequest CXXXI 149a
Pencil on white wove paper, 95 x 157 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned horizontally, this drawing is part of a sequence working in from the back cover of the sketchbook, which correlates with accounts of a voyage Turner and others made from Plymouth south-east to Burgh Island, returning by land from Kingsbridge (see folio 252 verso; D09430; Turner Bequest CXXXI 163a) towards Plymouth. The sequence begins on folio 275 (D09476; Turner Bequest CXXXI 186a), under which the overall trip is discussed, and may extend as far as folio 228 verso (Tate D09382; Turner Bequest CXXXI 139a). The viewpoint is as yet unestablished, but this slight sketch appears to focus on the tower at Mount Batten in the middle distance, with Plymouth Sound beyond to the west.

Matthew Imms
April 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Mount Batten and Plymouth from the East 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-mount-batten-and-plymouth-from-the-east-r1148132, accessed 19 September 2024.