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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Dartmouth Castle and the Mouth of the River Dart from Kingswear 1814

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 54 Recto:
Dartmouth Castle and the Mouth of the River Dart from Kingswear 1814
D09736
Turner Bequest CXXXIII 54
Pencil on white wove paper, 110 x 178 mm
Part watermark ‘Fell | 18’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘54’ bottom right, descending vertically, and ‘294’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CXXXIII 54’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The view is south-west to Warfleet and Dartmouth Castle from the eastern bank of the Dart at Kingswear. Eric Shanes has tentatively linked this sketch and the looser one on folio 53 verso opposite (D09735) with the watercolour Dartmouth Cove of about 1826 (Morgan Library & Museum, New York),1 engraved in 1827 for the series Picturesque Views in England and Wales;2 see the top right sketch on folio 57 verso (D09741) for the overall composition.
This is one of a sequence of views around Dartmouth and the Dart Estuary between folios 50 recto and 60 recto (D09730, D09744); for sketches made in 1811, see under the first of these.
1
Wilton 1979, p.391 no.787, reproduced.
2
Shanes 1979, p.156.
Verso:
Blank

Matthew Imms
July 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Dartmouth Castle and the Mouth of the River Dart from Kingswear 1814 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 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-dartmouth-castle-and-the-mouth-of-the-river-dart-from-r1147287, accessed 29 March 2024.