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 The Still Tower, Tavistock Abbey, beside the River Tavy 1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Still Tower, Tavistock Abbey, beside the River Tavy’ 1814
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 144 Verso:
The Still Tower, Tavistock Abbey, beside the River Tavy 1814
D09663
Turner Bequest CXXXII 144a
Pencil on white wove paper, 90 x 152 mm
Part watermark ‘Iv’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, the view is northeast up the rocky bed of the River Tavy with the Still Tower on the perimeter of the former Tavistock Abbey complex on the left, and Abbey Bridge beyond. The bridge has since been rebuilt, but the tower survives; see also folio 146 verso (D09667).
For other views of Tavistock on adjacent pages, see under folio 143 verso (D09661).

Matthew Imms
June 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The Still Tower, Tavistock Abbey, beside the River Tavy 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-still-tower-tavistock-abbey-beside-the-river-tavy-r1147212, accessed 23 September 2024.