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Painting by J. M. W. Turner
St Mawes at the Pilchard Season is an 1812 landscape painting by the British artist J.M.W. Turner. [1] It portrays the bustling port at the village of St Mawes on the eastern side of Falmouth Harbour in Cornwall. At the height of the pilchard season, fisherman are shown selling their recent catch on the beach. Pendennis Castle can be seen in the distance. .[2]
At the time the Napoleonic Wars were being fought and the Continental Blockade of Napoleon restricted European trade with Britain .rather than display the painting at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1812, Turner exhibited it in his own studio in Harley Street, one of six pictures featuring scenes of Cornwall and Devon inspired by his recent trip to the Southwest. [3] The painting was gifted to the nation as part of the Turner Bequest of 1856 and is now in the collection of the Tate Britain in Pimlico.[4]
- Hamilton, James. Turner - A Life. Sceptre, 1998
- Spencer-Longhurst, Paul. The Sun Rising Through Vapour: Turner's Early Seascapes. Third Millennium Information, 2003.
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- Lambeth Palace (1790)
- The Rising Squall (1792)
- Interior of a Romanesque Church (c. 1795–1800)
- Landscape with Windmill and Rainbow (c. 1795–1800)
- Diana and Callisto (c. 1796)
- Fishermen at Sea (1796)
- Interior of a Gothic Church (c. 1797)
- Limekiln at Coalbrookdale (c. 1797)
- Moonlight, a Study at Millbank (1797)
- Dunstanburgh Castle (1798)
- Aeneas and the Sibyl, Lake Avernus (c. 1798)
- Buttermere Lake (1798)
- Caernarvon Castle (c. 1798)
- Morning amongst the Coniston Fells, Cumberland (1798)
- Shipping by a Breakwater (1798)
- Tivoli and the Roman Campagna (c. 1798)
- View of a Town (c. 1798)
- Dolbadarn Castle (1798–1799)
- Self-Portrait (c. 1799)
- View in Wales (c. 1799–1800)
- A Beech Wood with Gypsies round a Campfire (c. 1800)
- A Beech Wood with Gypsies Seated in the Distance (c. 1800)
- Landscape with Lake and Fallen Tree (c. 1800)
- View on Clapham Common (c. 1800–1805)
- The Fifth Plague of Egypt (1800)
- Dutch Boats in a Gale (1801)
- Fishermen Upon a Lee-Shore in Squally Weather (1802)
- The Tenth Plague of Egypt (1802)
- Ben Lomond Mountains, Scotland (1802)
- Jason (1802)
- Ships Bearing Up for Anchorage (1802)
- Bonneville, Savoy (1803)
- Calais Pier (1803)
- The Festival of the Opening of the Vintage at Mâcon (1803)
- The Destruction of Sodom (1805)
- The Deluge (1805)
- The Shipwreck (1805)
- Windsor Castle from the Thames (1805)
- Fall of the Rhine at Schaffhausen (1806)
- The Thames at Weybridge (1806)
- Walton Bridges (1806)
- Cliveden on Thames (1807)
- A Country Blacksmith (1807)
- Linlithgow Palace (1807)
- Sun Rising through Vapour (1807)
- Two Captured Danish Ships Entering Portsmouth Harbour (1807)
- The Junction of the Thames and the Medway (1807)
- The Forest of Bere (1808)
- Pope's Villa at Twickenham (1808)
- Margate (1808)
- Sheerness as Seen from the Nore (1808)
- The Unpaid Bill (1808)
- View of Richmond Hill and Bridge (1808)
- Fishing Upon the Blythe Sand (1809)
- The Garreteer's Petition (1809)
- London from Greenwich Park (1809)
- Ploughing Up Turnips (1809)
- The Trout Stream (1809)
- Sun Setting through Vapour (1809)
- The Fish Market at Hastings Beach (1810)
- High Street, Oxford (1810)
- Apollo and Python (1811)
- Somer Hill, Tonbridge (1811)
- Saltash with the Water Ferry (1811)
- Hulks on the Tamar (1811)
- St Mawes at the Pilchard Season (1812)
- Teignmouth (1812)
- Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps (1812)
- Frosty Morning (1813)
- Dido and Aeneas (1814)
- Dido building Carthage (1815)
- Crossing the Brook (1815)
- The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire (1817)
- Raby Castle (1817)
- Dort or Dordrecht (1818)
- The Field of Waterloo (1818)
- Richmond Hill (1819)
- Entrance of the Meuse (1819)
- Rome, from the Vatican (1820)
- George IV at St Giles's, Edinburgh (1822)
- The Battle of Trafalgar (1822)
- The Bay of Baiae (1823)
- The Harbour of Dieppe (1825)
- Cologne (1826)
- Forum Romanum (1826)
- Mortlake Terrace (1826)
- Port Ruysdael (1826)
- Rembrandt's Daughter (1827)
- The Chain Pier, Brighton (1828)
- Chichester Canal (1828)
- East Cowes Castle (1828)
- Palestrina (1828)
- Regulus (1828)
- View of Orvieto (1828)
- Vision of Medea (1828)
- The Banks of the Loire (1829)
- The Loretto Necklace (1829)
- Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus (1829)
- The Evening Star (1830)
- Funeral of Sir Thomas Lawrence (1830)
- Pilate Washing his Hands (1830)
- Caligula's Palace and Bridge (1831)
- Lifeboat and Manby Apparatus Going Off to a Stranded Vessel (1831)
- Van Tromp's Barge Entering the Texel (1831)
- Christ Driving the Traders from the Temple (1832)
- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Italy (1832)
- The Prince of Orange Landing at Torbay (1832)
- Staffa, Fingal's Cave (1832)
- Quillebeuf, Mouth of the Seine (1833)
- The Fountain of Indolence (1834)
- The Golden Bough (1834)
- Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore (1834)
- St Michael's Mount, Cornwall (1834)
- The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons (1835)
- Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight (1835)
- Line Fishing, Off Hastings (1835)
- Rome, From Mount Aventine (1835)
- Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute (c. 1835)
- Juliet and her Nurse (1836)
- The Parting of Hero and Leander (1837)
- The Fighting Temeraire (1838)
- Fishing Boats with Hucksters Bargaining for Fish (1838)
- Cicero at His Villa at Tusculum (1839)
- Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino (1839)
- The Slave Ship (1840)
- Neapolitan Fisher Girls Surprised Bathing by Moonlight (1840)
- Venice, the Bridge of Sighs (1840)
- Venice from the Giudecca (1840)
- Schloss Rosenau (1841)
- Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth (1842)
- The Dogana, San Giorgio, Citella, from the Steps of the Europa (1842)
- The Blue Rigi (1842)
- The Red Rigi (1842)
- Peace – Burial at Sea (1842)
- War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet (1842)
- Light and Colour (1843)
- The Opening of the Wallhalla (1843)
- The Sun of Venice Going to Sea (1843)
- Approach to Venice (1844)
- Venice Quay, Ducal Palace (1844)
- Ostend (1844)
- Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway (1844)
- The Arrival of Louis-Philippe at Portsmouth (1845)
- Sunrise with Sea Monsters (1845)
- Norham Castle, Sunrise (c. 1845)
- Seascape: Folkestone (c. 1845)
- Whalers (1845)
- Whalers Entangled in Flaw Ice (1846)
- Queen Mab's Cave (1846)
- The Hero of a Hundred Fights (1847)
- The Wreck Buoy (1849)
- Mercury Sent to Admonish Aeneas (1850)
- The Departure of the Fleet (1850)
- The Beacon Light (unknown)
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