Art History talk: A Romantic Idyll: Turner's Views of Devon and Cornwall with Catherine Wallace

Name: Art History talk: A Romantic Idyll: Turner's Views of Devon and Cornwall with Catherine Wallace
Start: 2025-09-27T11:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-09-27T12:30:00+01:00
Location: Kea Community Centre, Playing Place, Truro TR3 6ET

Schedule

Sat Sep 27 2025 at 11:30 am to 12:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Kea Community Centre, Playing Place, Truro TR3 6ET | Truro, EN

Armed with just a sketch book and a photographic memory - Joseph Mallord William Turner left London in July 1811 and began his tour of the South Coast at Poole in Dorset then went through to Devon and finally Cornwall travelling along the Cornish coast to Land's End returning via Watchet in Somerset. The whole journey took 8 weeks. Turner had been commissioned to make a series of paintings by his publisher W.B.Cooke to be made into engravings to sell.
In this lecture Wallace looks at how Turner's paintings conveyed the romance of this unspoilt part of England with its castles, cliffs, rivers and working harbours, all created with an exaggeration of scale and perspective which amplified the message of romance in the viewers imagination.They inspired him to produce watercolours which were made into several series of prints over 20 years that made him a household name. Wallace compares the paintings, sketchbooks and prints Turner made from his 1811 journey and further visits to Devon in 1813 and 1814. Cost £14 pay by BACS by emailing [email protected] or send a cheque to Catherine Wallace Pendarves, Tremough Dale, Penryn TR10 8JA with your name and address and contact email.