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 Hills above ?the River Tamar 1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Hills above ?the River Tamar’ 1814
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 124 Verso:
Hills above ?the River Tamar 1814
D09625
Turner Bequest CXXXII 124a
Pencil on white wove paper, 90 x 152 mm
Inscribed by Turner ‘Park Ho[...] and H[...]’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Given the character of the scenery in this slight sketch, inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, it probably shows the meandering Tamar Valley, as seen on various adjacent pages. Finberg tentatively read the beginning of Turner’s inscription as ‘Park House’,1 while it is possible to interpret the last three words as ‘Horse and Hounds’, though this is very speculative, and neither reading has an immediately obvious local significance. For other views along the Tamar Valley, see under folio 114 verso (D09606).

Matthew Imms
June 2014

1
Finberg 1909, I, p.375.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Hills above ?the River Tamar 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-hills-above-the-river-tamar-r1147174, accessed 25 April 2024.