After J.M.W. Turner, Crossing the Brook

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) showed Crossing the Brook at the Royal Academy in 1815. It looks down the Tamar valley towards Plymouth and grew from sketches made in Devon in 1813. The painting came to the nation with the Turner Bequest of 1856 and now hangs at Tate Britain.

Two girls and a dog pause at a shallow ford beneath tall pines. Beyond them the valley opens out to a many-arched bridge and a pale, hazy distance. The print keeps Turner's soft golden light and cool blue-green shade.

Colour print, lettered below the image ‘Crossing the Brook.’ and ‘From the original Painting by J.M.W. Turner R.A. in the National Gallery, London’, with a plate mark below the lettering. Mounted in cream and framed under glass in a dark wood frame with a gilt slip.