Joseph Mallord William Turner

Diana Cook and Dorothy Kirk have identified the sketch as of Carthamartha, on the southern, Cornish side of the Tamar east of Lezant, about half way between Launceston and Gunnislake (roughly six miles to the north-west and south-east respectively as the crow flies). Here Turner looks south down the loop of the river in the valley below the building on the horizon at Carthamartha, where scattered farm buildings stand today beyond the woods above Carthamartha Rocks.

There is a view of the site from a different angle on folio 127 recto (D09630). For other views along the Tamar Valley, see under folio 114 verso (D09606).