'Abingdon Bridge', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Abingdon Bridge

From Hesperides (2) Sketchbook

Turner Bequest XCIV

Date 1805

MediumPen and ink on paper

Dimensionssupport: 143 x 228 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D05900

Turner Bequest XCIV 41

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Turner's sketchbooks

View this artwork in the Hesperides (2) Sketchbook

Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 41 Recto:

Abingdon Bridge 1805

D05900
Turner Bequest XCIV 41

Pencil on white wove paper, prepared with a grey wash, 143 x 228 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘41’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XCIV 41’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

For Abingdon Bridge see folios 4 and 40 verso of the sketchbook (D05850, D05899); the present sketch is, as Hill notes, a continuation of the latter view, to the right.

David Blayney Brown
December 2007

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