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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Valley with a Bridge and a Distant Tower, Probably in North Devon 1814

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 90 Recto:
A Valley with a Bridge and a Distant Tower, Probably in North Devon 1814
D09578
Turner Bequest CXXXII 90
Pencil on white wove paper, 90 x 152 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘90’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXXXII – 90’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This landscape, with buildings beside a bridge across a meandering river in the middle distance and a tower on the hilly skyline, 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, ‘A Valley with a Bridge and a Distant Tower, 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-a-valley-with-a-bridge-and-a-distant-tower-probably-in-north-r1147125, accessed 28 March 2024.