'Waterloo Bridge and Somerset House', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Waterloo Bridge and Somerset House

From Tabley No.3 Sketchbook

Turner Bequest CV

Date c.1825

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 108 x 185 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D07092

Turner Bequest CV 71

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Turner's sketchbooks

View this artwork in the Tabley No.3 Sketchbook

Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 81 Recto:

Waterloo Bridge and Somerset House circa 1825

D07092
Turner Bequest CV 71

Pencil on white wove paper, 108 x 185 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘71’ top left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CV 71’ top left, inverted

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

Drawn with the sketchbook inverted. See Introduction to the sketchbook for plans in the mid 1820s for a series of London subjects, including London Bridge, the Custom House and the Tower. Turner may have intended to include these additional subjects, Somerset House, the home of the Royal Academy, and John Rennie’s Waterloo Bridge (1811–16; renamed from Strand Bridge and formally opened in 1817). There are a number of views of the bridge on the following pages, the most detailed being on folio 88 (D07106; Turner Bequest CV 78).

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.