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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Hill beyond Trees, Probably East of Plymouth 1813

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Hill beyond Trees, Probably East of Plymouth’ 1813
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 114 Verso:
A Hill beyond Trees, Probably East of Plymouth 1813
D40581
Pencil on white wove paper, 95 x 157 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This slight drawing is not recorded in Finberg’s 1909 Inventory.1 With the page turned horizontally, the hill may overlook the Hamoaze (Tamar Estuary), the likely subject of adjacent sketches. The subjects as far as folio 127 recto (D09358) are all identified or presumed sites within a few miles in and around Plymouth, suggesting a series of fairly short excursions.
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See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.369.
Technical notes:
A stain to the left matches one on folio 115 recto opposite (D09341).

Matthew Imms
April 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Hill beyond Trees, Probably East of Plymouth 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-a-hill-beyond-trees-probably-east-of-plymouth-r1148070, accessed 24 April 2024.