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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Road Leading to a Bridge with Steep Hills Beyond, in Devon or Yorkshire 1814-16

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Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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A Road Leading to a Bridge with Steep Hills Beyond, in Devon or Yorkshire 1814–16
D09800
Turner Bequest CXXXIV 11
Pencil on white wove paper with gilt edges, 179 x 254 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘corn’ centre left and ‘Road’ bottom centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘11’ bottom right (very faint)
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXXXIV – 11’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Although this rural view, with a road leading to a two-arched bridge in a broad valley which narrows between steep, wooded hills towards the right, is carefully drawn, the lack of landmarks has so far impeded identification; the scene might equally well have been observed in Devon in 1814 or in Yorkshire in 1816, drawings of the two counties having been irretrievably mixed up when this sketchbook was dismembered and reassembled (see the Introduction).
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Matthew Imms
July 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Road Leading to a Bridge with Steep Hills Beyond, in Devon or Yorkshire 1814–16 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 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-leading-to-a-bridge-with-steep-hills-beyond-in-devon-r1147397, accessed 23 April 2024.