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 Wooded West Country Valley 1811

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Wooded West Country Valley’ 1811
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
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

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Wooded West Country Valley 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-wooded-west-country-valley-r1136899, accessed 24 September 2024.