'A Rainbow over Richmond Bridge', Joseph Mallord William Turner | Tate

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

A Rainbow over Richmond Bridge

From Hints River Sketchbook

Turner Bequest CXLI

Date c.1815-18

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 88 x 114 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Reference

D10616

Turner Bequest CXLI 18 a

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 18 Verso:

A Rainbow over Richmond Bridge circa 1815–18

D10616
Turner Bequest CXLI 18a

Pencil on white wove paper, 88 x 114 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Dark’ bottom left

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

Drawn with the sketchbook inverted, and continued on folio 19 (D10617), this follows another double-spread of a rainbow over Richmond Bridge on folios 17 verso–18 (D10614–D10615).

David Blayney Brown
July 2011

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This catalogue entry is part of: David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, December 2012.

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Context

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Sketchbooks

1802-18 Academician and professor

Sketchbooks from the 1810s

Hints River Sketchbook

Tate Collection

Gifts and bequests

Turner Bequest