'Gloucester: Westgate Bridge', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Gloucester: Westgate Bridge

From South Wales Sketchbook

Turner Bequest XXVI

Date 1795

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 203 x 264 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D00619

Turner Bequest XXVI 65

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 63 Recto:

Gloucester: Westgate Bridge 1795

Tate D00619
Turner Bequest XXVI 65

Pencil on white wove paper, 203 x 264 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘West Gate Bridge Gloucester’ bottom right
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in pencil ‘59’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XXVI 65’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XXVI 65’ top right, ascending vertically

References

The bridge was constructed in conjunction with the twelfth-century St Bartholomew’s Hospital, which had been rebuilt a few years before Turner’s visit by a local architect, William Price; the old bridge was replaced in 1816 with one by Robert Smirke (since demolished).

The drawing was made with the page turned horizontally.

Verso:

Blank; inscribed: ‘5’; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

Read this catalogue entry in full

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