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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country 1811 > Devonshire Coast, No.1 Sketchbook > Artwork

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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Lantern Hill and St Nicholas's Chapel, Ilfracombe’ 1811
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 218 Verso:
Lantern Hill and St Nicholas’s Chapel, Ilfracombe 1811
D08757
Turner Bequest CXXIII 215a
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 75 x 117 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Ilfracomb’ bottom centre
 
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, the cliffs of Hillsborough on the right. This is the last of four similar successive views, discussed under folio 216 verso (D08753; Turner Bequest CXXIII 213a), and the only one to be inscribed by Turner.

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-r1137235, accessed 25 April 2024.