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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country 1813 > Chemistry and Apuleia Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Avon Gorge near Bristol: St Vincent's Rocks from Nightingale Valley c.1813

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Avon Gorge near Bristol: St Vincent's Rocks from Nightingale Valley’ c.1813
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 5 Verso:
The Avon Gorge near Bristol: St Vincent’s Rocks from Nightingale Valley c.1813
D09897
Turner Bequest CXXXV 5a
Pencil on white wove paper, 88 x 113 mm
Inscribed in pencil ‘636’ centre left, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing is a brief continuation of the trees from the main part of the view on folio 6 recto opposite (D09898, under which the subject is discussed), from which there is some offsetting.

Matthew Imms
April 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The Avon Gorge near Bristol: St Vincent’s Rocks from Nightingale Valley c.1813 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 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-avon-gorge-near-bristol-st-vincents-rocks-from-r1147852, accessed 18 April 2024.