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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Okehampton Castle from the East 1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 61 Recto:
Okehampton Castle from the East 1814
D09815
Turner Bequest CXXXIV 23
Pencil on white wove paper with gilt edges, 179 x 254 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘W B[...]’ bottom right
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXXXIV – 23’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The castle is seen to the west from the West Okement Valley. For other views of the town and castle at Okehampton, see under folio 59 recto (D09814; Turner Bequest CXXXIV 22).
This page was shown at St Ives and Plymouth in 2006 in the exhibition Light into Colour: Turner in the South West.1
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The sketchbook is noted in ‘List of Works’ in Sam Smiles, Light into Colour: Turner in the South West, exhibition catalogue, Tate St Ives 2006, p.55, but the folio is not specified; nor is the page featured on the exhibition microsite, Tate Online, accessed 10 June 2014 http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-st-ives/exhibition/light-colour-turner-south-west, but its showing has been was confirmed by Tate St Ives curator Sara Hughes, email to the author, 8 February 2006.
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Matthew Imms
July 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Okehampton Castle from the East 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-okehampton-castle-from-the-east-r1147421, accessed 26 April 2024.