J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Grisedale Bridge over Goldrill Beck looking South 1797

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 60 Recto:
Grisedale Bridge over Goldrill Beck looking South 1797
D01048
Turner Bequest XXXV 46
Pencil on white wove paper, 274 x 370 mm
Part watermark ‘E & P’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Goldrill Br’ bottom right
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram towards bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XXXV 46’ bottom left, descending vertically
Drawn with the page turned horizontally, this is a view at Borrowdale, looking upstream towards Hartsop Dodd with Grisedale Bridge over the Goldrill Beck in the foreground. A view of the bridge from the opposite side is on the following leaf, folio 61 recto (D01081; Turner Bequest XXXV 79).
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram; inscribed by John Ruskin in brown ink ‘102’ (circled); ?in a later hand in blue crayon ‘14’; and by A.J. Finberg in pencil ‘41.46’.

Andrew Wilton
August 2010

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Grisedale Bridge over Goldrill Beck looking South 1797 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2010, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-grisedale-bridge-over-goldrill-beck-looking-south-r1150224, accessed 28 March 2024.