'Buildings by a Bridge', Joseph Mallord William Turner | Tate

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Buildings by a Bridge

From Tabley No.3 Sketchbook

Turner Bequest CV

Date 1808

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 108 x 185 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D07010

Turner Bequest CV 22

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 25 Recto:

Buildings by a Bridge 1808

D07010
Turner Bequest CV 22

Pencil on white wove paper, 108 x 185 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘22’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CV 22’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

The subject is unidentified but may be similar to that sketched in very slight outline on folio 24 of the sketchbook (D07008; Turner Bequest CV 21).

David Blayney Brown
June 2010

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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 1800s

Tabley No.3 Sketchbook

Tate Collection

Gifts and bequests

Turner Bequest