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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country 1811 > Devonshire Coast, No.1 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Berry Pomeroy Castle 1811

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Berry Pomeroy Castle’ 1811
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 146 Verso:
Berry Pomeroy Castle 1811
D08639
Turner Bequest CXXIII 143a
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 75 x 117 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Falling within a sequence of securely identified views of the ruined castle, this slight sketch perhaps shows an aspect of Berry Pomeroy’s west end. For a discussion of the subject and other studies in this sketchbook, see the entry for folio 141 recto (D08628; CXXIII 138).

Matthew Imms
June 2011

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Berry Pomeroy Castle 1811 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-berry-pomeroy-castle-r1137116, accessed 25 April 2024.