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 Warfleet Creek, Dartmouth 1811

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Warfleet Creek, Dartmouth’ 1811
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 43 Recto:
Warfleet Creek, Dartmouth 1811
D08858
Turner Bequest CXXIV 43
Pencil on white wove paper, 170 x 209 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXXIV – 43’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the third of five successive drawings showing Warfleet, just south of Dartmouth on the Dart Estuary. The others are on folios 41 recto, 42 recto, 44 recto and 45 recto (D08856, D08857, D08859, D08860), and the general setting is discussed in the entry for the first. In all but the last, the view is towards the Dart to the east from what is now Castle Road. Turner focuses here on a beached boat and figures handling its cargo.
Verso:
Blank, save for inscriptions by John Ruskin in red ink ‘6’ bottom left and ‘637’ top right, both upside down. A tear has been repaired at the bottom centre.

Matthew Imms
June 2011

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Warfleet Creek, Dartmouth 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-warfleet-creek-dartmouth-r1137336, accessed 25 April 2024.