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 Holy Trinity Church, Buckfastleigh, from the River Dart at Austin's Bridge 1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Holy Trinity Church, Buckfastleigh, from the River Dart at Austin's Bridge’ 1814
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 63 Recto:
Holy Trinity Church, Buckfastleigh, from the River Dart at Austin’s Bridge 1814
D09750
Turner Bequest CXXXIII 63
Pencil on white wove paper, 110 x 178 mm
Part watermark ‘ows | 2’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘B[...]’ top left, ‘River through’ bottom left
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘63’ bottom right, descending vertically, and ‘294’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CXXXIII 63’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Holy Trinity Church is seen on the hill above Buckfastleigh, looking north-west from the River Dart at Austin’s Bridge; the spire is now obscured by trees. There is a smaller sketch of the same view on folio 62 verso opposite (D09749).
There are other sketches of the neighbourhood on folios 61 verso, 63 verso and 64 recto (D09747, D09751, D09752), and more detailed studies of Buckfastleigh and nearby Buckfast Abbey in the contemporary Devonshire Rivers, No.3, and Wharfedale sketchbook; see under Tate D09844 (Turner Bequest CXXXIV 48).

Matthew Imms
July 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Holy Trinity Church, Buckfastleigh, from the River Dart at Austin’s Bridge 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-holy-trinity-church-buckfastleigh-from-the-river-dart-at-r1147301, accessed 25 April 2024.