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 > Greenwich Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Studies of a Wooden Bridge c.1808

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Studies of a Wooden Bridge’ c.1808
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 34 Verso:
Two Studies of a Wooden Bridge circa 1808
D06787
Turner Bequest CII 34a
Pencil on white wove paper, 76 x 115 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘5’, ‘3’ and ‘4’ within the arches of the bridge
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These sketches, drawn with the sketchbook inverted, continue on folio 35 (D06788). The bridge is unidentified.

David Blayney Brown
March 2007

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Two Studies of a Wooden Bridge c.1808 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2007, 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-two-studies-of-a-wooden-bridge-r1130880, accessed 26 April 2024.