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.2 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A River in a Wooded Valley, Probably the Dart between Totnes and Sharpham 1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A River in a Wooded Valley, Probably the Dart between Totnes and Sharpham’ 1814
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 48 Verso:
A River in a Wooded Valley, Probably the Dart between Totnes and Sharpham 1814
D09727
Turner Bequest CXXXIII 48a
Pencil on white wove paper, 110 x 178 mm
Part watermark ‘ows | 2’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Although there are no obvious landmarks, the setting is similar to the wooded Dart valley approaching Totnes seen on the recto (D09726), under which local views are noted; the present sketch may be another made on the river, of which there are further views on folio 49 recto (D09728).

Matthew Imms
July 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A River in a Wooded Valley, Probably the Dart between Totnes and Sharpham 1814 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 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-river-in-a-wooded-valley-probably-the-dart-between-totnes-r1147278, accessed 26 April 2024.