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Eric Shanes has identified the view as of Dartmouth from the west, looking to the Dart down the Ford Valley, at that time a tidal inlet but since reclaimed and built upon, with the tower of St Saviour’s Church on the right. The hill on the left is now the site of the Britannia Royal Naval College. Shanes has related the drawing to a ‘colour beginning’ (Tate
D25162; Turner Bequest CCLXIII 40) which corresponds in the main points of topography, although the church tower is omitted.
1 The viewpoint, today obstructed by trees and later development, appears to be around the top of Mount Boone.
This is the first of a sequence of views around Dartmouth and the Dart Estuary, running on to folio 60 recto (
D09744). Turner also made drawings here in 1811 on his first West Country tour, in the
Devonshire Coast, No.1 sketchbook (Tate
D08365,
D08366,
D08527,
D08528,
D08783,
D08786,
D08788; Turner Bequest CXXIII 2a, 3, 84, 84a, 235a, 237a, 239) and the
Corfe to Dartmouth sketchbook (Tate
D08856–D08862; Turner Bequest CXXIV 41–47).
Blank. There is a small, brown oily spot, showing through to the recto and also affecting folio 49 verso (
D09729), as well as folio 51 recto opposite (
D09731).
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