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Dartmouth Castle and the tower of St Petrox’s Church are shown on the west bank of the Dart Estuary, looking south-east towards the Kingswear side. There are related views on folios 2 verso, 3 recto and 238 verso (
D08365,
D08366,
D08783); other Dartmouth views are discussed under the second of these. There is a view towards Dartmouth on the verso (
D08786; CXXIII 237a).
The present sketch, with its more detailed treatment of the castle’s stonework, appears to have been used along with the one on folio 3 recto for the watercolour
Dartmouth Castle, on the River Dart (Tate
D18137; Turner Bequest CCVIII D),
1 engraved for the
Rivers of England series in 1824.
The next leaf (preceding what is now folio 241 recto;
D08787; CXXIII 238) has been torn out, leaving a narrow, irregular, unaccessioned blank stub. Its extraction slightly damaged the present page along the gutter at the head of the book (at the top right in relation to the drawing).
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