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 A Wooded Valley, Probably near Chudleigh Rocks 1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Wooded Valley, Probably near Chudleigh Rocks’ 1814
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 3 Recto:
A Wooded Valley, Probably near Chudleigh Rocks 1814
D09484
Turner Bequest CXXXII 3
Pencil on white wove paper, 90 x 152 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘3’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXXXII – 3’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This wooded valley, with a small rectangular object or structure towards the bottom left, may be below or near Chudleigh Rocks, the apparent subject of the sketches on folios 2 recto and 4 recto (D09483, D09485).
Verso:
Blank; a dark mark at the bottom left matches one on folio 4 recto opposite (D09485).

Matthew Imms
June 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Wooded Valley, Probably near Chudleigh Rocks 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-a-wooded-valley-probably-near-chudleigh-rocks-r1147026, accessed 24 April 2024.