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.Bann & Noon p.104-5 He produced it based on sketches he had made during a trip to Devon in 1813.Bann & Noon p.105
It was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1815 at Somerset House along with Dido building Carthage.Peckham p.313 Today it is in the collection of the Tate Britain having been part of the Turner Bequest of 1856.
See also List of paintings by J. M. W. Turner
References
Bibliography 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.