Crossing the Brook

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. He produced it based on sketches he had made during a trip to Devon in 1813.
It was displayed at the Royal [Academy Exhibition of 1815] at Somerset House along with Dido building Carthage.
Today it is in the collection of the Tate Britain having been part of the Turner Bequest of 1856.