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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Bridge on the River Ashburn, with Buckfastleigh Church and the Dart Bridge Beyond 1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 28 Recto:
The Bridge on the River Ashburn, with Buckfastleigh Church and the Dart Bridge Beyond 1814
D09839
Turner Bequest CXXXIV 44
Pencil on white wove paper with gilt edges, 179 x 254 mm
Inscribed by Turner ‘Broken Wall mason [?rebuildg]’ bottom left
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘44’ bottom right (very faint)
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXXXIV – 44’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The bridge over the River Dart is seen upstream to the north-west, with the spire of Holy Trinity Church, Buckfastleigh on the hill to the west. In the foreground is the smaller bridge over the River Ashburn at the point where it flows into the Dart; the viewpoint is now immediately to the west of the dual carriageway which crosses the Dart on a new bridge, and only the very top of the spire can be seen above trees.
Turner has made a verbal rather than a visual note of building activity on the vicinity. There is a sketch from nearby on folio 27 recto (D09846; Turner Bequest CXXXIV 50), where the bridge seen here in the foreground appears on the right; and one from the other side of the main bridge on folio 22 recto (D09844; Turner Bequest CXXXIV 48), under which further views around Buckfastleigh and Buckfast Abbey are discussed.
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Matthew Imms
July 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The Bridge on the River Ashburn, with Buckfastleigh Church and the Dart Bridge Beyond 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-the-bridge-on-the-river-ashburn-with-buckfastleigh-church-r1147384, accessed 27 April 2024.