Joseph Mallord William Turner

The Avon Gorge near Bristol: St Vincent’s Rocks from Nightingale Valley

c.1813

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Chemistry and Apuleia Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 88 × 113 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D09897
Turner Bequest CXXXV 5 a

Catalogue entry

The drawing is a brief continuation of the trees from the main part of the view on folio 6 recto opposite (D09898, under which the subject is discussed), from which there is some offsetting.

Matthew Imms
April 2014

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