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 Tamar 1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The River Tamar’ 1814
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 142 Recto:
The River Tamar 1814
D09658
Turner Bequest CXXXII 142
Pencil on white wove paper, 90 x 152 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘142’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXXXII – 142’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Diana Cook and Dorothy Kirk reproduce the drawing, but describe it as an example of the ‘sparse and rudimentary’ and ‘fragmentary’1 Tamar studies in this part of the sketchbook, and thus difficult to identify precisely. There appears to be a small structure above the river at the centre. For other views along the Tamar Valley, see under folio 114 verso (D09606).

Matthew Imms
June 2014

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Cook and Kirk 2009, p.28.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘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-the-river-tamar-r1147207, accessed 18 April 2024.