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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country 1811 > Somerset and North Devon Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Lynton and Lynmouth from Inland 1811

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Lynton and Lynmouth from Inland’ 1811
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Lynton and Lynmouth from Inland 1811
D08963
Turner Bequest CXXVI 17
Pencil on white wove paper, 200 x 324 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXXVI 17’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The viewpoint seems to be around where Barbrook Road becomes Lynbridge Road, leading down to Lynmouth at the mouth of the West Lyn River. Lynton is to the north on the hill to the left; the hill beyond Lynmouth obscures Foreland Point to the north-east. Today the valley is densely wooded, hiding this view, but it is shown clearly in George Rowe’s lithograph Entrance to Lynton and Lynmouth of about 1828 or 1835 and George Townsend’s 1853 engraving Lynton and Lynmouth (Westcountry Studies Library, Exeter).
Turner made a very similar sketch from slightly further north, with Foreland Point visible, on D08962 (Turner Bequest CXXVI 16). For other views of Lynton and Lynmouth see under D08948 (CXXVI 3).
Technical notes:
There are five sets of stitch holes near the left-hand edge.
Verso:
Blank

Matthew Imms
January 2011

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Lynton and Lynmouth from Inland 1811 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-lynton-and-lynmouth-from-inland-r1137560, accessed 24 November 2024.