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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The South Gate, Launceston, with the Castle and St Mary Magdalene's Church ?1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 75 Recto:
The South Gate, Launceston, with the Castle and St Mary Magdalene’s Church ?1814
D09823
Turner Bequest CXXXIV 31
Pencil on white wove paper with gilt edges, 179 x 254 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXXXIV – 31’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner looks here to the north-west, through and over the South Gate from the present Southgate Street, to the castle and the tower of St Mary Magdalene’s Church. Across the valley in the distance between them is the tower of St Stephen’s Church, St Stephen-by-Launceston.
There is a sketchier study from a similar viewpoint in the Devon Rivers, No.1 sketchbook (Tate D09603; Turner Bequest CXXXII 113), probably used on the same occasion. For other views of Launceston Castle and the surrounding town, see under folio 70 recto (D09873; Turner Bequest CXXXIV 72).
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Matthew Imms
July 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The South Gate, Launceston, with the Castle and St Mary Magdalene’s Church ?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-the-south-gate-launceston-with-the-castle-and-st-mary-r1147435, accessed 26 April 2024.