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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country 1811 > Corfe to Dartmouth Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Ringmore, near Teignmouth, with Vessels under Construction 1811

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ringmore, near Teignmouth, with Vessels under Construction’ 1811
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 35 Verso:
Ringmore, near Teignmouth, with Vessels under Construction 1811
D08850
Turner Bequest CXXIV 35
Pencil on white wove paper, 170 x 209 mm
Inscribed in ?ink ‘35’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘CXXIV – 35’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Arthur Ebdon identifies the location as the Strand at Ringmore, upstream across the River Teign from Teignmouth, and notes that sixty-eight vessels were constructed in the Teignmouth area during the Napoleonic Wars.1 The view inland to the west can today be seen from Ringmore Road and, as Butlin and Joll note, seems to be ‘back from beyond the boat under construction’ seen from the other direction in the drawing on folios 36 verso–37 recto (D08851, D08852);2 see the catalogue entries for these as the source of a painting and a watercolour. There is another ship, apparently with a row of gun ports, on the stocks above a row of cottages in the distance.
This page was recorded by Finberg as if it were a recto (without the ‘a’ suffix by which he usually indicates a verso), but the drawing he describes is bound as the verso of the sheet and the ‘recto’ is blank (with brown spotting towards the top and a repaired tear at the middle of the right-hand edge).
1
Ebdon 2005, pp.5, 14.
2
Butlin and Joll 1984, p.85.
Technical notes:
There is a small hole towards the top centre.

Matthew Imms
February 2011

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Ringmore, near Teignmouth, with Vessels under Construction 1811 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 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-ringmore-near-teignmouth-with-vessels-under-construction-r1137328, accessed 23 September 2024.