Dawn in the Valley

1832

William Turner of Oxford

Artist, British, 1789 - 1862

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor with scratching out and gum arabic on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Florian Carr Fund

  • Dimensions

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

  • Accession

    2014.34.1

Artwork history & notes

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

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, Washington, July-September 2014 (no catalogue).

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

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.

Wikidata ID

Q64639757

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