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 in the Dart Valley near Buckfastleigh 1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Views in the Dart Valley near Buckfastleigh’ 1814
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 62 Verso:
Views in the Dart Valley near Buckfastleigh 1814
D09749
Turner Bequest CXXXIII 62a
Pencil on white wove paper, 110 x 178 mm
Part watermark ‘ows | 2’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Buck[...]’ towards top centre and ‘Road’ left of centre in top-left quadrant
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner has bisected the sheet horizontally and vertically, with two sketches in the top half and an apparently continuous panorama below, all showing the Buckfastleigh area. The viewpoints of the valley views at the top left and right have yet to be established: the one on the left includes notes of a ‘Road’ and ‘Buck[...]’, and the one on the right appears to show Austin’s Bridge.
The lower view shows Holy Trinity Church above Buckfastleigh, looking north-west from the River Dart at Austin’s Bridge. The slight sketch is developed as a full-page drawing on folio 63 recto opposite (D09750). Compare F.C. Lewis’s 1820 engraving of Austin’s Bridge and the River Dart.
For other views around Buckfastleigh and Buckfast Abbey, see under D09750.

Matthew Imms
July 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Views in the Dart Valley near Buckfastleigh 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-in-the-dart-valley-near-buckfastleigh-r1147300, accessed 20 April 2024.