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 and Yorkshire 1814-17 > Devon Rivers, No.1 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Trees above the River Tamar 1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Trees above the River Tamar’ 1814
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 124 Recto:
Trees above the River Tamar 1814
D09624
Turner Bequest CXXXII 124
Pencil on white wove paper, 90 x 152 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘124’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXXXII – 124’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg suggested that the view was on the ‘River Tamar near Wier [sic] Head’.1 This book contains numerous sketches along the meandering Tamar among wooded hills several miles up- and down-river of Weir Head, near Gunnislake, but the present scene, with its carefully drawn tree trunks against a rather faint background, remains to be precisely identified. For other views along the Tamar Valley, see under folio 114 verso (D09606).

Matthew Imms
June 2014

1
Finberg 1909, I. p.375.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Trees above the River Tamar 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-trees-above-the-river-tamar-r1147173, accessed 24 April 2024.