Joseph Mallord William Turner

The Outskirts of Ivybridge

1814

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Devon Rivers, No.2 Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 178 × 110 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D09720
Turner Bequest CXXXIII 43 a

Catalogue entry

The exact viewpoint of this drawing, inverted relative to sketchbooks’s foliation, has not been determined, but may have been on what is now Western Road, then the main road into Ivybridge from Plympton (drawn on the recto, D09719), which has seen much later development. The same scene is shown in a wash drawing by inscribed ‘Ivy Bridge, Sept 1 1820’ by Robert Hurrell Froude (Westcountry Studies Library, Exeter). There is a slight continuation of the trees at the left on folio 44 recto opposite (D09721). For other views of the town see under folio 45 recto (D09722).

Matthew Imms
July 2014

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