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.2 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Dartmouth from Kingswear 1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Dartmouth from Kingswear’ 1814
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 60 Recto:
Dartmouth from Kingswear 1814
D09744
Turner Bequest CXXXIII 60
Pencil on white wove paper, 110 x 178 mm
Part watermark ‘Fell | 18’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Ferry – Horse [?going –]’ bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘60’ bottom right, descending vertically, and ‘294’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CXXXIII 60’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Dartmouth is seen in slightly more detail from a similar angle on folio 59 recto (D09743), although here Turner is on the bank of the River Dart at Kingswear rather than at the higher vantage point of that drawing. He looks north-west past the tower of St Saviour’s Church by the harbour, up the hill to St Clement’s Church on the horizon. There are also small variations on the present view on folio 57 verso (D09741).
This is the last of a sequence of views around Dartmouth and the Dart Estuary beginning on folio 50 recto (D09730), under which sketches made in 1811 are discussed.

Matthew Imms
July 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Dartmouth 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-from-kingswear-r1147295, accessed 20 April 2024.