Crossing the Brook

Crossing the Brook is an 1815 landscape painting by the British artist J.M.W.

It depicts a view towards Plymouth down the Tamar valley.

[1] He produced it based on sketches he had made during a trip to Devon in 1813.

[2] It was displayed at the Royal Academy's 1815 Summer Exhibition at Somerset House along with Dido building Carthage.

[3] Today it is in the collection of the Tate Britain having been part of the Turner Bequest of 1856.