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 Chilsworthy and the River Tamar, near Gunnislake 1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Chilsworthy and the River Tamar, near Gunnislake’ 1814
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 137 Recto:
Chilsworthy and the River Tamar, near Gunnislake 1814
D09649
Turner Bequest CXXXII 137
Pencil on white wove paper, 90 x 152 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘137’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXXXII – 137’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Diana Cook and Dorothy Kirk have identified Turner’s sketch as showing Chilsworthy above the Tamar Valley, looking north-west from around the junction of the roads between North Dimson and Chilsworthy along what is locally known as Windy Ridge or Windy Bridge, up the hill west of Gunnislake. They note the best vantage point as a bridge over the dismantled railway just south of the junction. The Tamar is now largely obscured by trees.1
On the verso (D09650) is a view from the same spot or nearby, looking north-east to the distant tors of Dartmoor. For other views along the Tamar Valley, see under folio 114 verso (D09606).

Matthew Imms
June 2014

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Cook and Kirk 2001, p.46, reproducing modern photograph of the view as by Kirk; Cook and Kirk 2009, p.52, reproducing the same photograph as by Cook.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Chilsworthy and the River Tamar, near Gunnislake 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-chilsworthy-and-the-river-tamar-near-gunnislake-r1147198, accessed 20 April 2024.