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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Thames sketchbooks c.1804-14 > River Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Walton Bridges c.1807

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Walton Bridges’ c.1807
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
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).

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Walton Bridges c.1807 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, October 2006, 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-walton-bridges-r1130176, accessed 26 April 2024.