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 Tavistock Abbey with St Eustachius's Church Beyond 1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Tavistock Abbey with St Eustachius's Church Beyond’ 1814
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 146 Recto:
Tavistock Abbey with St Eustachius’s Church Beyond 1814
D09666
Turner Bequest CXXXII 146
Pencil on white wove paper, 90 x 152 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘146’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXXXII – 146’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner’s viewpoint is the north end of Abbey Bridge, Tavistock. The buildings in the immediate foreground do not survive, but the pinnacled building in the centre, a remnant of Tavistock Abbey, was later incorporated into the Guildhall and Magistrate’s Court still standing between Abbey Place and Market Road. In the distance to the north-west is the tower of St Eustachius’s Church.
For other views of Tavistock on adjacent pages, see under folio 143 verso (D09661).
Technical notes:
The leaf is rubbed and stained halfway down the right-hand edge, and a significant loss has been made good. This appears to have been caused by proximity to the brass clasp formerly set into the back cover.

Matthew Imms
June 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Tavistock Abbey with St Eustachius’s Church Beyond 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-tavistock-abbey-with-st-eustachiuss-church-beyond-r1147215, accessed 20 September 2024.