J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country and Yorkshire 1814-17 > Devon Rivers, No.1 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Wooded Hills, with a House and Bridge, Probably in South Devon 1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Wooded Hills, with a House and Bridge, Probably in South Devon’ 1814
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 125 Verso:
Wooded Hills, with a House and Bridge, Probably in South Devon 1814
D09627
Turner Bequest CXXXII 125a
Pencil on white wove paper, 90 x 152 mm
Inscribed by Turner ‘Wood’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This scene, with a house and bridge among rapidly sketched hills and valleys, is presently unidentified, but probably in south Devon from its context in the sketchbook.

Matthew Imms
June 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Wooded Hills, with a House and Bridge, Probably in South Devon 1814 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-wooded-hills-with-a-house-and-bridge-probably-in-south-devon-r1147176, accessed 25 April 2024.