© Exeter City Museums & Art Gallery
Buckfastleigh Abbey, Devonshire
Artist: JMW Turner (1775 - 1851)
Location: Royal Albert Memorial Museum
Date: 1826
Materials: watercolour
Dimensions: 28 x 37 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £3,000 (Total: £13,256)
Vendor: Agnew's
Review number: 2777 (1979)
Provenance:
Unsold stock and plates auctioned; Turner; Thomas Griffith; B.G. Windus; John Ruskin; Arthur Severn before 1878; Christie's, 1901; Tooth; Barnet Lewis; Christie's, 1930; Agnew; Vice-Admiral Sir William Agnew.
Description:
For Charles Heath's 'Picturesque Views in England and Wales', the most ambitious and far-ranging of the many illustrative projects on which he embarked in the 1820s-30s. The scheme met with poor response from the public and ended in Heath's bankcruptcy.
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