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Eric Shanes has noted this sketch as a source for the watercolour Teignmouth, Devonshire which he dates to about 1811 (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven), 1 engraved in 1815 for the Picturesque Views on the Southern Coast of England 2 (see the concordance of the series in the 1811 tour introduction). Presumably on the same occasion, Turner also made a detailed drawing of the scene, showing more of the estuary and the bank to the right, across two pages of the Corfe to Dartmouth sketchbook (Tate D08851 , D08852 ; Turner Bequest CXXIV 36–37), which he followed closely in the watercolour, and in the oil painting Teignmouth , which he exhibited at his gallery in 1812 (Tate T03882 ; displayed at Petworth House, West Sussex). 3

Arthur Ebdon identifies the location as the Strand at Ringmore, upstream across the River Teign from Teignmouth, and notes that sixty-eight vessels were constructed in the Teignmouth area during the Napoleonic Wars. 4 For other views of Teignmouth see under folio 71 verso ( D08499 ; CXXIII 68a).

Apparently by an oversight or typographical error, this drawing is not listed by Finberg in his 1909 Turner Bequest Inventory . It has since been given the pseudo-Finberg number ‘239v’. He had listed the drawing on the recto ( D08788 ; CXXIII 239), but also omits to mention the printed page of Coltman’s British Itinerary on folio 243 recto opposite ( D08790 ; CXXIII 240). 5

Matthew Imms

June 2011

1

Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work , Fribourg 1979, p.351 no.452, reproduced, as circa 1813.

2

Shanes 1981, p.152, and 1990, pp.47 under no.24, 283 note 24 as ‘p.23’, apparently a typographical error.

3

Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner , revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, p.85 no.120, pl.127 (colour).

4

Arthur Ebdon, Turner in Teignmouth , Toby Thorne (ed.), Teignmouth 2005, pp.5, 14.

5

See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest , London 1909, vol.I, p.352. Read full