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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Okehampton Castle from the South-West 1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 63 Recto:
Okehampton Castle from the South-West 1814
D09816
Turner Bequest CXXXIV 24
Pencil on white wove paper with gilt edges, 179 x 254 mm
Watermark ‘J Whatman | 1811’ (lower part of date trimmed at edge of leaf)
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXXXIV – 24’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The castle keep is seen to the north-east, closer and from a little lower and further west in the West Okement Valley than in the sketch on folio 62 recto (D09868; Turner Bequest CXXXIV 67). Eric Shanes has noted the present sketch as relating to the watercolour Okehampton, Devonshire of about 1826 (National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne),1 engraved in 1828 for the series Picturesque Views in England and Wales.2 Although the match is not precise, it is perhaps the nearest among Turner’s various studies. The watercolour, with the trees relocated and a man shooting rabbits in the foreground, may be an amalgam of different aspects.
For other views of the town and castle at Okehampton, see under folio 59 recto (D09814; Turner Bequest CXXXIV 22).
1
Wilton 1979, p.393 no.802, reproduced.
2
Shanes 1979, p.156.
Technical notes:
There is some dark spotting at the top edge, showing through from the back of the sheet.
Verso:
Blank

Matthew Imms
July 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Okehampton Castle from the South-West 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-south-west-r1147423, accessed 24 April 2024.