'Walton Bridges', Joseph Mallord William Turner | Tate

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Walton Bridges

From River Sketchbook

Turner Bequest XCVI

Date c.1807

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 92 x 163 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D06000

Turner Bequest XCVI 34 a

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 34 Verso:

Walton Bridges circa 1807

D06000
Turner Bequest XCVI 34a

Pencil on white laid paper, 92 x 163 mm

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

The subject is continued on folio 35 (D06001). Other views of Walton Bridges in this sketchbooks are folios 35 verso–36, 38 and 40 (D06002–D06003, D06005, D06008). All these might post-date Turner’s Walton Bridges probably shown in his own gallery in 1807 (National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne).1

David Blayney Brown
October 2006

1

Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, p.50 no.63 (pl.71).

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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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