Mount Edgcumbe and Plymouth Sound from Saltram
William Tomkins (London c.1730 – London 1792)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1770
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
635 x 1016 mm (25 x 40 in)
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Saltram, Devon
NT 872239
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Mount Edgcumbe and Plymouth Sound from Saltram by William Tomkins (London c.1730 – London 1792), circa 1770. The view is painted from a point in the park close to what is today called Point Cottage, but which was then known as the Bath House. The plantation on the right still exists as a belt of trees leading from the garden (near the Castle) along the ridge of the hill and down to Point Cottage. The Citadel in Plymouth can clearly be seen in the middle distance, with Mount Edgcumbe House on the right of it in the background.
Provenance
Accepted by the Treasury in part payment of death-duties from the executors of Edmund Robert Parker, 4th Earl of Morley (1877-1951) and transferred to the Trust in 1957
Credit line
Saltram, The Morley Collection (accepted in lieu of tax by HM Government and transferred to the National Trust in 1957)
Makers and roles
William Tomkins (London c.1730 – London 1792), artist