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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > East Sussex c.1806-20 > Vale of Heathfield Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?The Tamar Valley near Gunnislake ?1813

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?The Tamar Valley near Gunnislake’ ?1813
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 52 Recto:
?The Tamar Valley near Gunnislake ?1813
D10276
Turner Bequest CXXXVII 49
Pencil on white wove paper, 181 x 228 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘49’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘CXXXVII 49’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a slight continuation of the main view on folio 51 verso (D10275; CXXXVII 48a). The composition is inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation.

Matthew Imms
May 2011

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘?The Tamar Valley near Gunnislake ?1813 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 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-the-tamar-valley-near-gunnislake-r1131322, accessed 27 April 2024.