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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country and Yorkshire 1814-17 > Devon Rivers, No.1 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Lydford Castle and St Petroc's Church from Lydford Gorge 1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Lydford Castle and St Petroc's Church from Lydford Gorge’ 1814
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 32 Recto:
Lydford Castle and St Petroc’s Church from Lydford Gorge 1814
D09514
Turner Bequest CXXXII 32
Pencil on white wove paper, 90 x 152 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘32’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXXXII – 32’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Lydford’s church and castle are seen directly aligned from the south-west across the deep, wooded Lydford gorge. For other views around Lydford, see under folio 28 recto (D09510), which shows the view in the opposite direction. Perhaps made on the same occasion, a single, slightly more finished study in the Devonshire Rivers, No. 3, and Wharfedale sketchbook (Tate D09840; Turner Bequest CXXXIV 45) shows the tower and keep from a little further east, with the tower clear to the left of the castle and the hills beyond consequently further to the right.
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Matthew Imms
June 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Lydford Castle and St Petroc’s Church from Lydford Gorge 1814 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-lydford-castle-and-st-petrocs-church-from-lydford-gorge-r1147058, accessed 23 September 2024.