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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Lantern Hill and St Nicholas's Chapel, Ilfracombe 1811

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 218 Recto:
Lantern Hill and St Nicholas’s Chapel, Ilfracombe 1811
D08756
Turner Bequest CXXIII 215
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 75 x 117 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘215’ top left, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CXXIII – 215’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Looking north-east across Ilfracombe’s harbour, St Nicholas’s Chapel and Lantern Hill are seen on the left, with Hillsborough and the coast towards Beacon Point on the right. This is the third of four similar successive views, discussed under folio 216 verso (D08753; Turner Bequest CXXIII 213a).

Matthew Imms
June 2011

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Lantern Hill and St Nicholas’s Chapel, Ilfracombe 1811 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-lantern-hill-and-st-nicholass-chapel-ilfracombe-r1137234, accessed 28 March 2024.