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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The River Thames, Wallingford Bridge and Church from Upstream, Mid-River 1805

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The River Thames, Wallingford Bridge and Church from Upstream, Mid-River’ 1805
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
The River Thames, Wallingford Bridge and Church from Upstream, Mid-River 1805
D05943
Turner Bequest XCV 39
Pencil on white wove paper, 258 x 366 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Warf’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XCV 39’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a right-hand page from the sketchbook. Turner shows the ancient bridge from upstream, as it then was before repairs and the addition of a balustrade in 1809, and the church on the right. Hill reproduces a photograph of his own to show how little the view is changed today.1
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Hill 1993, p.109 pl.160.
Verso:
Blank. Laid down.
David Blayney Brown
Febrary 2009

How to cite

‘The River Thames, Wallingford Bridge and Church from Upstream, Mid-River 1805 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-river-thames-wallingford-bridge-and-church-from-upstream-r1129976, accessed 25 April 2024.