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

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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 Taddiport Bridge on the River Torridge below Great Torrington 1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Taddiport Bridge on the River Torridge below Great Torrington’ 1814
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 87 Recto:
Taddiport Bridge on the River Torridge below Great Torrington 1814
D09574
Turner Bequest CXXXII 87
Pencil on white wove paper, 90 x 152 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ’87’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXXXII – 87’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Taddiport Bridge is in the foreground, with Great Torrington Common rising to the east on the north bank of the River Torridge. On the skyline is the tower seen in other drawings here, which appears to be the gazebo or belvedere still standing beside the bowling green on the site of the medieval castle off Castle Street.1 There is a similar view on folio 88 recto (D09575), and others in the contemporary Devonshire Rivers, No. 3, and Wharfedale sketchbook (Tate D09809, D09810, and possibly D09829; Turner Bequest CXXXIV 18, 18a, 36).
For other views of the town on adjacent pages, see under folio 80 recto (D09566).
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See Bridget Cherry and Nikolaus Pevsner, Devon, The Buildings of England, revised ed., New Haven and London 2002, p.463.
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Matthew Imms
June 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Taddiport Bridge on the River Torridge below Great Torrington 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-taddiport-bridge-on-the-river-torridge-below-great-r1147121, accessed 20 September 2024.