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 The Tamar Valley and Gunnislake from near Calstock 1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Tamar Valley and Gunnislake from near Calstock’ 1814
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 140 Recto:
The Tamar Valley and Gunnislake from near Calstock 1814
D09654
Turner Bequest CXXXII 140
Pencil on white wove paper, 90 x 152 mm
Part watermark ‘Iv’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘140’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXXXII – 140’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Diana Cook and Dorothy Kirk describe the view of the Devon bank of the Tamar, looking north-east from Windy Hill, on the road below the later railway bridge north-west of Calstock’s parish church.1 The view is continuous with folio 139 verso opposite (D09653), where Gunnislake is visible, although Cook and Kirk treat that page separately and suggest a different viewpoint nearby.
The view eastwards towards Morwellham on the verso (D09655) may effectively be a development and extension of the rough outlines towards the right of the present page.
For other views along the Tamar Valley, see under folio 114 verso (D09606).

Matthew Imms
June 2014

1
Cook and Kirk 2001, p.39, and Cook and Kirk 2009, p.38, each with a modern photograph of the view by Kirk.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The Tamar Valley and Gunnislake from near Calstock 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-the-tamar-valley-and-gunnislake-from-near-calstock-r1147203, accessed 19 April 2024.