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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country and Yorkshire 1814-17 > Devon Rivers, No.1 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?The River Torridge near Bideford 1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?The River Torridge near Bideford’ 1814
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 77 Recto:
?The River Torridge near Bideford 1814
D09562
Turner Bequest CXXXII 77
Pencil on white wove paper, 90 x 152 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘77’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXXXII – 77’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg’s identification of this sketch as showing the River Torridge,1 is probably correct by association with sketches on adjacent pages, but this scene with a church tower above a wooded valley awaits positive identification. For views in the area of Bideford, near the mouth of the Torridge, see under folio 79 recto (D09564).
1
Finberg 1909, I, p.374.
Technical notes:
There is some staining to the right-hand edge of the sheet.
Verso:
Blank

Matthew Imms
June 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘?The River Torridge near Bideford 1814 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-river-torridge-near-bideford-r1147109, accessed 27 April 2024.