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 Views of Dartmouth and Kingswear 1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Views of Dartmouth and Kingswear’ 1814
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 55 Verso:
Views of Dartmouth and Kingswear 1814
D09738
Turner Bequest CXXXIII 55a
Pencil on white wove paper, 110 x 178 mm
Part watermark ‘Fell | 18’
Inscribed by Turner ‘Dartmouth’ and ‘[?Grss] twice towards top centre in top-left quadrant, ‘Start’ towards top right in top right quadrant, ‘[?Grss]’ bottom centre in bottom-left quadrant, and ‘Beech wood | oppo the cove | Dartmouth’ towards bottom centre in bottom-right quadrant
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner has bisected the page both horizontally and vertically, using the quadrants to show related views of the steep valley of the Dart Estuary. On the left are two sketches of Dartmouth Castle from the east, looking across the Dart with Kingswear Castle on the near side. There is a full-page view from a similar angle on folio 57 recto (D09740).
At the bottom right is a drawing of Dartmouth Castle from further north on the wooded bank opposite, as Turner notes; at the top right is a view of the coast, looking south-west across Start Bay to Start Point, some ten miles away. A full-page study of the coast is on folio 56 recto opposite (D09739).
This is one of a sequence of views around Dartmouth and the Dart Estuary between folios 50 recto and 60 recto (D09730, D09744); for sketches made in 1811, see under the first of these.

Matthew Imms
July 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Views of Dartmouth and Kingswear 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-views-of-dartmouth-and-kingswear-r1147289, accessed 26 April 2024.