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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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