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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country 1811 > Devonshire Coast, No.1 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Town or Village among Hills; Hills, Possibly on the West Country Coast 1811

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Town or Village among Hills; Hills, Possibly on the West Country Coast’ 1811
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 2 Recto:
A Town or Village among Hills; Hills, Possibly on the West Country Coast 1811
D08364
Turner Bequest CXXIII 2
Pencil on white laid paper, 75 x 117 mm
Watermark ‘17 8’
Inscribed twice by John Ruskin in red ink ‘2’ bottom right and bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CXXIII – 2’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
There are two slight sketches here. The main view across the lower half of the page seems to have been drawn looking down on houses descending between wooded hills. They are possibly the same buildings as seen from below on folio 1 verso opposite (D08363).
Above this drawing is another, starting a quarter of the way across the page from the left and framed by vertical and horizontal lines, showing hills or West Country cliffs to the right of an unidentified, possibly architectural feature.

Matthew Imms
June 2011

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Town or Village among Hills; Hills, Possibly on the West Country Coast 1811 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 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-a-town-or-village-among-hills-hills-possibly-on-the-west-r1136840, accessed 26 April 2024.