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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country and Yorkshire 1814-17 > Devon Rivers, No.2 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Kingswear Castle, Dartmouth Castle and the Coast to Start Point 1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Kingswear Castle, Dartmouth Castle and the Coast to Start Point’ 1814
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 56 Recto:
Kingswear Castle, Dartmouth Castle and the Coast to Start Point 1814
D09739
Turner Bequest CXXXIII 56
Pencil on white wove paper, 110 x 178 mm
Part watermark ‘Fell | 18’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Start’ top left
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘56’ bottom right, descending vertically, and ‘294’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CXXXIII 56’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The view is from the east side of the Dart Estuary, looking west to Dartmouth Castle, and south-west over the ruin of Kingswear Castle past Blackstone Point and Combe Point across Start Bay to Start Point, some ten miles away at almost the southern tip of Devon.
There is a small drawing from a similar angle on folio 55 verso opposite (D09738). This is one of a sequence of views around Dartmouth and the Dart Estuary between folios 50 recto and 60 recto (D09730, D09744); for sketches made in 1811, see under the first of these.
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Matthew Imms
July 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Kingswear Castle, Dartmouth Castle and the Coast to Start Point 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-kingswear-castle-dartmouth-castle-and-the-coast-to-start-r1147290, accessed 13 December 2025.