In Tate Britain
Prints and Drawings Room
View by appointment- Artist
- Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
- Medium
- Watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 280 × 408 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
- Reference
- D18157
Turner Bequest CCVIII X
Display caption
Turner had visited Ivy Bridge, near Plymouth, in 1811. He returned two
years later, when he made the sketches that were used as the basis for this watercolour. He was visiting Devon because he had been commissioned
to take views for a series of prints called Picturesque Views on the Southern Coast of England.
This study seems remarkably naturalistic. However, a poem Turner wrote about his journey made it clear that for him the scenery evoked patriotic reflections
on morality and history.
Gallery label, August 2004
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