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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
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 Houses by a Bridge, with a Tower on a Hill Beyond, Probably in North Devon 1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Houses by a Bridge, with a Tower on a Hill Beyond, Probably in North Devon’ 1814
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 89 Recto:
Houses by a Bridge, with a Tower on a Hill Beyond, Probably in North Devon 1814
D09577
Turner Bequest CXXXII 89
Pencil on white wove paper, 90 x 152 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘89’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXXXII – 89’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This scene, with houses beyond a stone bridge with at least four arches, and a tower on a distant hill, is presently unidentified, but probably in north Devon from its context in the sketchbook.
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Matthew Imms
June 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Houses by a Bridge, with a Tower on a Hill Beyond, Probably in North 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-houses-by-a-bridge-with-a-tower-on-a-hill-beyond-probably-in-r1147124, accessed 20 September 2024.