Joseph Mallord William Turner

?The Dart 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 x 117 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D08551
Turner Bequest CXXIII 96

Catalogue entry

As with sketches on adjacent pages, this is likely to be a view on the River Dart. For other views on the river, identified and unidentified, see under folio 84 verso (D08522; CXXIII 81a).
Technical notes:
There is extensive offsetting from the ink inscription on folio 98 verso opposite (D08550; CXXIII 95a).

Matthew Imms
June 2011

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