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Buckfastleigh Abbey, Devonshire
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1826
© Exeter City Museums & Art Gallery
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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Title of artwork, date
Buckfastleigh Abbey, Devonshire, 1826
Date supported
1979
Medium and material
Watercolour
Dimensions
28 x 37 cm
Grant
3000
Total cost
13256
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