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 Lantern Hill and St Nicholas's Chapel, Ilfracombe 1811

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Lantern Hill and St Nicholas's Chapel, Ilfracombe’ 1811
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 217 Verso:
Lantern Hill and St Nicholas’s Chapel, Ilfracombe 1811
D08755
Turner Bequest CXXIII 214a
Pencil on white wove printing paper, 75 x 117 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
St Nicholas’s Chapel and Lantern Hill appear in profile, seen from the south across Ilfracombe’s harbour. This is the second of four similar successive views, discussed under folio 216 verso (D08753; Turner Bequest CXXIII 213a).

Matthew Imms
June 2011

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Lantern Hill and St Nicholas’s Chapel, Ilfracombe 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-lantern-hill-and-st-nicholass-chapel-ilfracombe-r1137233, accessed 25 April 2024.