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 Brent Tor and Great Links Tor, Dartmoor, beyond the Tamar Valley near Gunnislake 1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Brent Tor and Great Links Tor, Dartmoor, beyond the Tamar Valley near Gunnislake’ 1814
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 137 Verso:
Brent Tor and Great Links Tor, Dartmoor, beyond the Tamar Valley near Gunnislake 1814
D09650
Turner Bequest CXXXII 137a
Pencil on white wove paper, 90 x 152 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Diana Cook and Dorothy Kirk have identified the view as a distant prospect of Dartmoor, with Brent Tor (see also folio 24 recto; D09506), about six miles to the north-east, on the horizon on the left, and Great Links Tor, some six miles further on, to the right, 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. Below, in the middle distance, is the meandering Tamar, now largely obscured by trees.1 For more Dartmoor views, see under folio 8 recto (D09489).
On the recto (D09649) is a view from the same spot or nearby, looking north-west up the Tamar. For other views along the valley, see under folio 114 verso (D09606).

Matthew Imms
June 2014

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Cook and Kirk 2001, p.45, reproducing modern photograph of the view by Cook; Cook and Kirk 2009, p.51, reproducing another photograph by Cook with details of Brent Tor and Great Links Tor.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Brent Tor and Great Links Tor, Dartmoor, beyond the Tamar Valley 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-brent-tor-and-great-links-tor-dartmoor-beyond-the-tamar-r1147199, accessed 23 September 2024.