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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country and Yorkshire 1814-17 > Devon Rivers, No.1 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Hexworthy Bridge on the West Dart River, Dartmoor 1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Hexworthy Bridge on the West Dart River, Dartmoor’ 1814
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 115 Verso:
?Hexworthy Bridge on the West Dart River, Dartmoor 1814
D09608
Turner Bequest CXXXII 115a
Pencil on white wove paper, 90 x 152 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘WRD’ bottom left, and ‘Dt’ bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘115’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXXXII – 115’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner’s abbreviated inscriptions suggest this view, inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, is on the West Dart River, on the south-east side of Dartmoor. There is a similar ‘Dt’ inscription on folio 119 verso (D09615), while an inscription on folio 126 verso (D09629) appears to indicate Dartmeet Bridge. The present sketch, though rather slight in its depiction of the structure, possibly shows the three-arched bridge at Hexworthy, near Dartmeet, rather than the two-arched one at Two Bridges.
For other definite or likely Dartmoor views, see under folio 8 recto (D09489).

Matthew Imms
June 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘?Hexworthy Bridge on the West Dart River, Dartmoor 1814 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-hexworthy-bridge-on-the-west-dart-river-dartmoor-r1147157, accessed 24 April 2024.