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 Devon Hills near Buckland Monachorum 1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Devon Hills near Buckland Monachorum’ 1814
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 123 Verso:
Devon Hills near Buckland Monachorum 1814
D09623
Turner Bequest CXXXII 123a
Pencil on white wove paper, 90 x 152 mm
Part watermark ‘y Mill | 1812’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘R’ and ‘Wall’ bottom left, and ‘Buckl’ top right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg’s interpretation of Turner’s inscription ‘Buckl’ as indicating Buckland Monachorum1 seems to be correct. Otherwise, this succession of hills and valleys offers few topographical clues. Buckland Monachorum and nearby Buckland Abbey stand near the River Tavy, a few miles south of Tavistock (see under folio 143 verso; D09661) and a similar distance east of Calstock on the River Tamar (see folio 141 recto; D09656, and other nearby views). The viewpoint is yet to be established but is probably near the Tamar, looking east.
Folio 122 verso (D09621), a sketch of similar terrain, is inscribed ‘Road Buckland’.

Matthew Imms
June 2014

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Finberg 1909, I, p.375.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Devon Hills near Buckland Monachorum 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-devon-hills-near-buckland-monachorum-r1147172, accessed 25 April 2024.