'Lynton and Lynmouth from Inland', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Lynton and Lynmouth from Inland

From Somerset and North Devon Sketchbook

Turner Bequest CXXVI

Date 1811

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 200 x 324 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Reference

D08962

Turner Bequest CXXVI 16

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Lynton and Lynmouth from Inland 1811

D08962
Turner Bequest CXXVI 16

Pencil on white wove paper, 200 x 324 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘H’ on hill towards top left and ‘G’, ‘R’, ‘P’, ‘G’, ‘H’ and ‘P’ on various features towards centre right
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXXVI 16’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

Allowing for the sketchiness of the foreground, Turner’s viewpoint appears to be at about the point where Barbrook Road becomes Lynbridge Road, leading down to Lynmouth at the end of the valley of the West Lyn River. Lynton stands to the north on the heights to the left, while Foreland Point is in the distance to the north-east beyond Lynmouth. The valley is now densely wooded, obscuring this prospect, but George Rowe’s lithograph Entrance to Lynton and Lynmouth of about 1828 or 1835 and George Townsend’s 1853 engraving Lynton and Lynmouth (Westcountry Studies Library, Exeter) shows the unobstructed view.

Turner made a near-repetition of the present sketch from slightly further south, with Foreland Point consequently hidden, on D08963 (CXXVI 17). For other views of Lynton and Lynmouth see under D08948 (CXXVI 3).

Technical notes:

There are five sets of stitch holes near the left-hand edge.

Verso:

Blank

Matthew Imms
January 2011

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This catalogue entry is part of: David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, December 2012.