'A Wooded West Country Valley', Joseph Mallord William Turner | Tate

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

A Wooded West Country Valley

From Devonshire Coast, No.1 Sketchbook

Turner Bequest CXXIII

Date 1811

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 75 x 117 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Reference

D08422

Turner Bequest CXXIII 32 a

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 32 Verso:

A Wooded West Country Valley 1811

D08422
Turner Bequest CXXIII 32a

Pencil on white wove writing paper, 75 x 117 mm
Part watermark ‘Sm | 17’

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

With no clear landmarks, and given that Turner’s use of this sketchbook on his West Country tour was not always sequential from cover to cover, this view of rolling hills remains unidentified.

Matthew Imms
June 2011

Read this catalogue entry in full

This catalogue entry is part of: David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, December 2012.

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Context

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Sketchbooks

1802-18 Academician and professor

Sketchbooks from the 1810s

Devonshire Coast, No.1 Sketchbook

Tate Collection

Gifts and bequests

Turner Bequest