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 Exeter: St Sidwell's Church and the Cathedral from Pennsylvania 1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Exeter: St Sidwell's Church and the Cathedral from Pennsylvania’ 1814
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 66 Recto:
Exeter: St Sidwell’s Church and the Cathedral from Pennsylvania 1814
D09756
Turner Bequest CXXXIII 66
Pencil on white wove paper, 110 x 178 mm
Part watermark ‘ows | 12’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘66’ bottom right, descending vertically, and ‘294’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CXXXIII 66’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Exeter is seen to the south from the vicinity of Pennsylvania Road, with St Sidwell’s Church towards the left and the low towers at the central crossing of Exeter Cathedral towards the right, with hills towards Newton Abbot on the horizon. This is a variation, perhaps from a slightly closer viewpoint, of the sketch on folio 65 verso opposite (D09755), under which the subject is discussed further.

Matthew Imms
July 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Exeter: St Sidwell’s Church and the Cathedral from Pennsylvania 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-exeter-st-sidwells-church-and-the-cathedral-from-r1147307, accessed 26 April 2024.