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.2 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Dartmouth from Townstal 1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Dartmouth from Townstal’ 1814
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 52 Recto:
Dartmouth from Townstal 1814
D09733
Turner Bequest CXXXIII 52
Pencil on white wove paper, 110 x 178 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘52’ bottom right, descending vertically, and ‘294’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CXXXIII 52’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The Dart Estuary is seen to the south-east; the foreground is now built over, but a close match for the viewpoint is The Keep Gardens, off Townstal Hill, on the northern approaches to Dartmouth. The tower of St Saviour’s Church is in the middle distance to the left, with Kingswear on the opposite bank and the shallow spire of St Petrox’s Church above Dartmouth Castle in the distance. There are two sketches from a very similar viewpoint in the 1811 Corfe to Dartmouth sketchbook (Tate D08861, D08862; Turner Bequest CXXIV 46, 47).
This is one of a sequence of views around Dartmouth and the Dart Estuary between folios 50 recto and 60 recto (D09730, D09744); for other sketches made in 1811, see under the first of these.
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Matthew Imms
July 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Dartmouth from Townstal 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-dartmouth-from-townstal-r1147284, accessed 24 April 2024.