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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Farmyard in a Wooded Valley in Devon or Yorkshire 1814-16

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Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 38 Recto:
A Farmyard in a Wooded Valley in Devon or Yorkshire 1814–16
D09808
Turner Bequest CXXXIV 17
Pencil on white wove paper with gilt edges, 179 x 254 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘17’ bottom right (very faint)
Stamped in black ‘CXXXIV – 17’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing is a continuation to the right of the main view of the farmyard on folio 37 recto (D09807; Turner Bequest CXXXIV 16), under which the subject is discussed. There appears to be an animal or two, perhaps pigs, in the foreground.
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Matthew Imms
July 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Farmyard in a Wooded Valley in Devon or Yorkshire 1814–16 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-farmyard-in-a-wooded-valley-in-devon-or-yorkshire-r1147396, accessed 18 January 2025.