'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

D08860

Turner Bequest CXXIV 45

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 45 Recto:

Warfleet Creek, Dartmouth 1811

D08860
Turner Bequest CXXIV 45

Pencil on white wove paper, 170 x 209 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXXIV – 45’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

This is the last of five successive drawings showing Warfleet, just south of Dartmouth on the Dart Estuary. The others are on folios 41 recto, 42 recto, 43 recto and 44 recto (D08856–D08859), and their general setting – the shoreline from the west, with houses and a tower on the north side – is discussed in the entry for the first.

Here the view is in the opposite direction, looking south-west along Warfleet Road down the hill seen in the background of the other drawings.

Verso:

Blank, save for very faint inscription by John Ruskin in red ink ‘4’ bottom left, upside down. There is some slight rubbing and 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.