Joseph Mallord William Turner

A Town or Village among Hills; Hills, Possibly on the West Country Coast

1811

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: Devonshire Coast, No.1 Sketchbook
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 75 × 117 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D08364
Turner Bequest CXXIII 2

Catalogue entry

There are two slight sketches here. The main view across the lower half of the page seems to have been drawn looking down on houses descending between wooded hills. They are possibly the same buildings as seen from below on folio 1 verso opposite (D08363).

Above this drawing is another, starting a quarter of the way across the page from the left and framed by vertical and horizontal lines, showing hills or West Country cliffs to the right of an unidentified, possibly architectural feature.

Matthew Imms
June 2011

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