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 Temple Bar, Clovelly 1811

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Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 224 Verso:
Temple Bar, Clovelly
D41521
Pencil on white wove printing paper, 117 x 75 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This slight, rapid sketch of steps up to a doorway inside an archway was not recorded by Finberg in his Turner Bequest Inventory.1 It is a continuation from the full-page drawing on folio 225 recto opposite (D08765; CXXIII 222), under which the subject is discussed.

Matthew Imms
June 2011

1
See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.352.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Temple Bar, Clovelly 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-temple-bar-clovelly-r1137243, accessed 26 April 2024.