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.2 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Dartmouth Castle and the Dart Estuary from Kingswear 1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Dartmouth Castle and the Dart Estuary from Kingswear’ 1814
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 58 Recto:
Dartmouth Castle and the Dart Estuary from Kingswear 1814
D09742
Turner Bequest CXXXIII 58
Pencil on white wove paper, 110 x 178 mm
Part watermark ‘Fell | 18’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘58’ bottom right, descending vertically, and ‘294’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CXXXIII 58’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing, showing Dartmouth Castle to the south through trees on the Kingswear side of the Dart, is from a similar viewpoint to the smaller sketch at the top right of folio 57 verso opposite (D09741), which provided the overall basis for 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. As in the smaller drawing, there is no indication of the sailors and women introduced into the foreground of the finished design.
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.
Verso:
Blank

Matthew Imms
July 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Dartmouth Castle and the Dart Estuary 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-dart-estuary-from-kingswear-r1147293, accessed 26 April 2024.