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

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

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Valley between Trees, Perhaps in the West Country 1811

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Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 10 Verso:
A Valley between Trees, Perhaps in the West Country 1811
D41520
Pencil on white wove printing paper, 75 x 117 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This slight, cursive view of what appears to be a valley framed by trees below rolling hills, perhaps with buildings in the middle distance, is difficult to make out against the printed text showing through from the recto of the leaf (D08380). It is not recorded in Finberg’s Turner Bequest Inventory.1 Given that the sequence of drawings in this sketchbook does not entirely conform to Turner’s route on his West Country tour (see the introduction to the book), it is not possible to suggest a likely location for this generic sketch.

Matthew Imms
June 2011

1
See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.352.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Valley between Trees, Perhaps in the West Country 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-valley-between-trees-perhaps-in-the-west-country-r1136857, accessed 25 April 2024.