J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Buckfastleigh Church and the Dart Bridge 1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 27 Recto:
Buckfastleigh Church and the Dart Bridge 1814
D09846
Turner Bequest CXXXIV 50
Pencil on white wove paper with gilt edges, 179 x 254 mm
Watermark ‘J Whatman | 1811’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘S[...]’ bottom left
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘50’ bottom right (very faint)
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXXXIV – 50’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The bridge is seen upstream from the south-east, with the spire of Buckfastleigh’s Holy Trinity Church (now barely visible above trees) on the hill to the west. Turner’s viewpoint is at about where the A38 dual carriageway now crosses the Dart. There is a sketch from nearby on folio 28 recto (D09839; Turner Bequest CXXXIV 44) and one from the other side of the bridge on folio 22 recto (D09844; Turner Bequest CXXXIV 48); further views around Buckfastleigh and Buckfast Abbey are discussed under the latter.
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Matthew Imms
July 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Buckfastleigh Church and the Dart 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-buckfastleigh-church-and-the-dart-bridge-r1147383, accessed 24 September 2024.