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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
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 The Junction of the Rivers Lyd and Tamar near Launceston 1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Junction of the Rivers Lyd and Tamar near Launceston’ 1814
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 120 Recto:
The Junction of the Rivers Lyd and Tamar near Launceston 1814
D09616
Turner Bequest CXXXII 120
Pencil on white wove paper, 90 x 152 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Lid Tamar’ bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘120’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXXXII – 120’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The Lyd flows into the Tamar about three miles east of Launceston, near Lifton. Launceston Castle and the tower of St Mary Magdalene’s Church appear on the skyline towards the right. For further views of Launceston, see under folio 106 recto (D09596).

Matthew Imms
June 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The Junction of the Rivers Lyd and Tamar near Launceston 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-the-junction-of-the-rivers-lyd-and-tamar-near-launceston-r1147165, accessed 25 April 2024.