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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country 1813 > Plymouth, Hamoaze Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Path or Road through a Wood, with a Castellated Tower Above, Probably in South-West Devon 1813

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Path or Road through a Wood, with a Castellated Tower Above, Probably in South-West Devon’ 1813
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 239 Verso:
A Path or Road through a Wood, with a Castellated Tower Above, Probably in South-West Devon 1813
D09404
Turner Bequest CXXXI 150a
Pencil on white wove paper, 157 x 95 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This drawing is part of a sequence working in from the back cover of the sketchbook, which correlates with accounts of a voyage Turner and others made from Plymouth south-east to Burgh Island, returning by land from Kingsbridge (see folio 252 verso; D09430; Turner Bequest CXXXI 163a) towards Plymouth. The sequence begins on folio 275 (D09476; Turner Bequest CXXXI 186a), under which the overall trip is discussed, and may extend as far as folio 228 verso (Tate D09382; Turner Bequest CXXXI 139a). The subject, with the square tower and turret of a church or house silhouetted on the skyline above, currently remains unidentified.

Matthew Imms
April 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Path or Road through a Wood, with a Castellated Tower Above, Probably in South-West Devon 1813 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 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-a-path-or-road-through-a-wood-with-a-castellated-tower-above-r1148134, accessed 26 April 2024.