Joseph Mallord William Turner

Impham Bend on the River Tamar below Morwell Rocks

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
D09651
Turner Bequest CXXXII 138

Catalogue entry

Diana Cook and Dorothy Kirk identify the view as looking east to the River Tamar from Colley Cliff on the Gunnislake to Calstock road, with Morwell Rocks beyond.1 For other views along the Tamar Valley, see under folio 114 verso (D09606).
1
Cook and Kirk 2001, p.37, with early twentieth-century postcard and modern photograph by Kirk reproduced p.38; Cook and Kirk 2009 p.39, reproducing the same earlier photograph and modern photographs by Kirk.
Verso:
Blank

Matthew Imms
June 2014

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