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.2 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Trees by a Road or River, Perhaps between Exeter and Bickleigh 1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Trees by a Road or River, Perhaps between Exeter and Bickleigh’ 1814
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 68 Verso:
Trees by a Road or River, Perhaps between Exeter and Bickleigh 1814
D09761
Turner Bequest CXXXIII 68a
Pencil on white wove paper, 110 x 178 mm
Part watermark ‘ows | 12’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner has used the right-hand half of the page for his main sketch, although there is a separate drawing of a line of hills towards the top left.
The view is currently unidentified, but falls between studies of Exeter on folio 66 recto (D09756) and Bickleigh, in the Exe Valley to the north on folio 71 recto (D09764).

Matthew Imms
July 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Trees by a Road or River, Perhaps between Exeter and Bickleigh 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-trees-by-a-road-or-river-perhaps-between-exeter-and-r1147312, accessed 24 September 2024.