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.2 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Plympton Castle and St Maurice's Church from the Pathfields 1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Plympton Castle and St Maurice's Church from the Pathfields’ 1814
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 42 Recto:
Plympton Castle and St Maurice’s Church from the Pathfields 1814
D09718
Turner Bequest CXXXIII 42
Pencil on white wove paper, 110 x 178 mm
Part watermark ‘Fell | 18’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘[?w]’ bottom centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘42’ bottom right, descending vertically, and ‘294’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CXXXIII 42’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
St Maurice’s Church and Plympton Castle are seen from the north-west, across the Pathfields, which remains open ground, albeit with a later lime avenue running across it in the direction of Turner’s view;1 for a view in the opposite direction, see folio 43 recto (D09719). There are also drawings of the two buildings in the 1811 Devonshire Coast, No.1 sketchbook (Tate D08561, D08565; Turner Bequest CXXIII 101a, 103a).
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For photographs before and after the avenue was established, see ‘Pathfields’, Plympton St Maurice Civic Association, accessed 16 November 2011, http://www.plymptonstmaurice.co.uk/pathfields.htm.
Technical notes:
A tear to the edge at the bottom centre has been repaired.
Verso:
Blank

Matthew Imms
July 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Plympton Castle and St Maurice’s Church from the Pathfields 1814 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 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-plympton-castle-and-st-maurices-church-from-the-pathfields-r1147269, accessed 25 April 2024.