The Camden Town Group in Context

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The River Derwent Flowing beneath High Cliffs 1794

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The River Derwent Flowing beneath High Cliffs’ 1794
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 18 Verso:
The River Derwent Flowing beneath High Cliffs 1794
D00225
Turner Bequest XIX 17a
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 181 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Matlock’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg records an inscription ‘View on R. Derwent’, but this is not visible. He proposed that the view of a river bank on folio 15 recto (D00221) also shows the Derwent.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘The River Derwent Flowing beneath High Cliffs 1794 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2012, in Helena Bonett, Ysanne Holt, Jennifer Mundy (eds.), The Camden Town Group in Context, Tate Research Publication, May 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research/content/1140745?project=2, accessed 02 September 2026.