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 Dartmouth from Kingswear 1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Dartmouth from Kingswear’ 1814
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 59 Recto:
Dartmouth from Kingswear 1814
D09743
Turner Bequest CXXXIII 59
Pencil on white wove paper, 110 x 178 mm
Part watermark ‘Fell | 18’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘59’ bottom right, descending vertically, and ‘294’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CXXXIII 59’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner shows Dartmouth from the Kingswear side of the River Dart, looking north-west past the tower of St Saviour’s Church by the harbour, up the hill to St Clement’s Church on the horizon. There is a similar view, this time from the water’s edge, on folio 60 recto (D09744), the last of a sequence of views around Dartmouth and the Dart Estuary beginning on folio 50 recto (D09730); for sketches made in 1811, see under the first of these.
There are small variations on the present view on folio 57 verso (D09741).
Verso:
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Matthew Imms
July 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Dartmouth from 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-dartmouth-from-kingswear-r1147294, accessed 26 April 2024.