'Warfleet Creek, Dartmouth', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Warfleet Creek, Dartmouth

From Corfe to Dartmouth Sketchbook

Turner Bequest CXXIV

Date 1811

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 170 x 209 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D08857

Turner Bequest CXXIV 42

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 42 Recto:

Warfleet Creek, Dartmouth 1811

D08857
Turner Bequest CXXIV 42

Pencil on white wove paper, 170 x 209 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXXIV – 42’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

This is the second of five successive drawings showing Warfleet, just south of Dartmouth on the Dart Estuary. The others are on folios 41 recto, 43 recto, 44 recto and 45 recto (D08856, D08858–D08860), and the general setting is discussed in the entry for the first. In all but the last, the view is towards the Dart to the east. Here, on the track through the trees to the right where Castle Road now runs up to Dartmouth Castle, there are figures, one of whom may be riding a donkey.

Verso:

Blank, save for inscription by John Ruskin in red ink ‘7’ bottom left, upside down. There is extensive brown spotting.

Matthew Imms
June 2011

Read this catalogue entry in full

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