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Crossing the Brook

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Crossing the Brook
ArtistJ. M. W. Turner
Year1815
TypeOil on canvas, landscape painting
Dimensions193 cm × 165 cm (76 in × 65 in)
LocationTate Britain, London

Crossing the Brook is an 1815 landscape painting by the British artist J.M.W. Turner. It depicts a view towards Plymouth down the Tamar valley. Turner gave the English countryside an Italianate look.[1] He produced it based on sketches he had made during a trip to Devon in 1813.[2]

It was displayed at the Royal Academy's 1815 Summer Exhibition at Somerset House along with Dido building Carthage.[3] Today it is in the collection of the Tate Britain having been part of the Turner Bequest of 1856.[4]

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References

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  1. ^ Bann & Noon p.104-5
  2. ^ Bann & Noon p.105
  3. ^ Peckham p.313
  4. ^ https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-crossing-the-brook-n00497

Bibliography

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  • Bailey, Anthony. J.M.W. Turner: Standing in the Sun. Tate Enterprises Ltd, 2013.
  • Hamilton, James. Turner - A Life. Sceptre, 1998.
  • Noon, Patrick & Bann, Stephen. Constable to Delacroix: British Art and the French Romantics. Tate, 2003.
  • Peckham, Morse. The Birth of Romanticism, 1790-1815. Penkevill, 1986.