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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Road with Hills Beyond, Probably in South Devon 1814

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 118 Verso:
A Road with Hills Beyond, Probably in South Devon 1814
D09613
Turner Bequest CXXXII 118a
Pencil on white wove paper, 90 x 152 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘[?Corn]’ bottom centre, and ‘Road’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this scene with a road among trees in the foreground and a deep valley beyond, is presently unidentified, but probably in south Devon from its context in the sketchbook.

Matthew Imms
June 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Road with Hills Beyond, Probably in South Devon 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-a-road-with-hills-beyond-probably-in-south-devon-r1147162, accessed 28 March 2024.