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 with a Winding River Beyond, Perhaps between Exeter and Bickleigh 1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Trees with a Winding River Beyond, Perhaps between Exeter and Bickleigh’ 1814
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 70 Recto:
Trees with a Winding River Beyond, Perhaps between Exeter and Bickleigh 1814
D09763
Turner Bequest CXXXIII 70
Pencil on white wove paper, 110 x 178 mm
Part watermark ‘Fell | 18’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Butcher | and Calf’ bottom left
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘70’ bottom right, descending vertically, and ‘294’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CXXXIII 70’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
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). Turner’s inscription perhaps indicates a tradesman with an animal encountered on his journey.
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Matthew Imms
July 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Trees with a Winding River Beyond, 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-with-a-winding-river-beyond-perhaps-between-exeter-and-r1147314, accessed 27 April 2024.