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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A River among Hills, Possibly the Truro River or the Fal 1811

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A River among Hills, Possibly the Truro River or the Fal’ 1811
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 129 Verso:
A River among Hills, Possibly the Truro River or the Fal 1811
D08608
Turner Bequest CXXIII 126a
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 75 x 117 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view bears a generic resemblance to one in the contemporary Ivy Bridge to Penzance sketchbook (Tate D08899; Turner Bequest CXXV 23a) which may show the meandering Truro River from Malpas, which Turner probably passed through on his way south-west towards Falmouth (see under folio 7 verso; D08375) by way of Grampound (see folio 128 verso; D08606; CXXIII 125a); the river may alternatively be the Fal. There are inscriptions which appear to refer to St Michael Penkivel and Tregothnan, along the east bank of the Truro, on a river view on folio 109 recto (D08570; CXXIII 106).

Matthew Imms
June 2011

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A River among Hills, Possibly the Truro River or the Fal 1811 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-river-among-hills-possibly-the-truro-river-or-the-fal-r1137085, accessed 20 September 2024.