Joseph Mallord William Turner

Distant Hills, Probably in North Devon

1814

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Devon Rivers, No.1 Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 90 × 152 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D40826

Catalogue entry

This slight drawing of a distant range of hills, made with the sketchbook inverted, is not recorded in Finberg’s Inventory.1 Given its context, it is probably a north Devon view.

Matthew Imms
June 2014

1
See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.374.

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