Joseph Mallord William Turner

?The Tamar Valley

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
D09643
Turner Bequest CXXXII 134

Catalogue entry

Finberg confidently described this sketch as showing the ‘River Tamar’,1 but there are few no obvious landmarks to assist in identifying it. The view does seem characteristic of the Tamar Valley area, of which there are more readily identifiable views on adjacent pages; see under folio 114 verso (D09606).

Matthew Imms
June 2014

1
Finberg 1909, I, p.375.

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