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 Views on the River Dart, including Totnes 1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Views on the River Dart, including Totnes’ 1814
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 60 Verso:
Views on the River Dart, including Totnes 1814
D09745
Turner Bequest CXXXIII 60a
Pencil on white wove paper, 110 x 178 mm
Part watermark ‘Fell | 18’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner has bisected the sheet vertically, and the right-hand half horizontally. There are drawings to the left and right of the top half, and another at the bottom right which appears to be continued to the left beyond the central dividing line, making three drawings in total rather than the four of Finberg’s title.
The very summary drawing at the top right shows Totnes Castle, with two strokes indicating the town’s church tower (to the right of the dark trees) and the bridge over the Dart to the right. There is a more detailed drawing from a similar viewpoint on folio 61 recto opposite (D09746). The lower drawing also shows Totnes to the south, apparently from the Newton Abbot road. For other Totnes views, see under folio 48 recto (D09726).

Matthew Imms
July 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Views on the River Dart, including Totnes 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-on-the-river-dart-including-totnes-r1147296, accessed 24 April 2024.