Dawn in the Valley, 1832

Not on View

Medium

watercolor with scratching out and gum arabic on wove paper

Dimensions

overall: 74.93 × 108.59 cm (29 1/2 × 42 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Florian Carr Fund

Accession Number

2014.34.1

Artists / Makers

William Turner of Oxford (artist) British, 1789 - 1862

Image Use

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Provenance

Possibly Lord Rolle (who purchased a watercolor of this subject from the exhibition of the London Society of Painters in Water-Colours in 1832); private collection, Surrey, to 1997; (Leger Galleries, London); private collection, U.K.; private collection, USA, to 2014; (Lowell Libson, London); NGA purchase in 2014.

Associated Names

Lowell Libson, Ltd.

Exhibition History

1832: (Possibly) London Society of Painters in Water-Colours, 1832, no. 115 (Near Lustleigh Cleeve, on the River Teign, Devonshire, Dartmoor in the distance).

1998: Annual Exhibition of Watercolours and Drawings. Spink-Leger, London, 1998, no. 57 (color).

2014: The Color of Nature: Recent Acquisitions of Landscape Watercolors, NGA, 2014.

2014: The Color of Nature: Recent Acquisitions of Landscape Watercolors. NGA, Washington, July-September 2014 (no catalogue).

2023: Drawing in Britain, 1700 - 1900: New Additions to the Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2023.

Bibliography

2014: Robison, Andrew. "Gifts and Acquisitons: William Turner of Oxford, Dawn in the Valleys of Devon." National Gallery of Art Bulletin no. 51 (Fall 2014): 20-21, repro.