Joseph Mallord William Turner

A Wooded West Country Valley

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
D08422
Turner Bequest CXXIII 32 a

Catalogue entry

With no clear landmarks, and given that Turner’s use of this sketchbook on his West Country tour was not always sequential from cover to cover, this view of rolling hills remains unidentified.

Matthew Imms
June 2011

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