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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > East Sussex c.1806-20 > Vale of Heathfield Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Denham Bridge, on the River Tavy near Buckland Monachorum ?1813

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Denham Bridge, on the River Tavy near Buckland Monachorum’ ?1813
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 55 Verso:
Denham Bridge, on the River Tavy near Buckland Monachorum ?1813
D10283
Turner Bequest CXXXVII 52a
Pencil on white wove paper, 181 x 228 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘[?s...]’ on water lower left of centre
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram towards bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner shows the south side of the narrow, isolated bridge over the River Tavy west of Buckland Monachorum, with its pointed main arch in plain view and its smaller, more rounded one just visible beyond foliage on the right. The scene remains much the same today. The sketch is inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation.
The sketchbook contains numerous views in and around the Tamar and Tavy valleys between folios 46 verso (D10265; CXXXVII 43a) and 58 verso (D10289; CXXXVII 55a), probably made in the summer of 1813 in conjunction with those in the smaller Devon Rivers, No.1 sketchbook (Tate; Turner Bequest CXXXII). The latter is covered in the section of the present catalogue specifically devoted to Turner’s 1813 visit to Devon, where further information on Turner’s work in the locality will be found.

Matthew Imms
May 2011

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Denham Bridge, on the River Tavy near Buckland Monachorum ?1813 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2011, 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-denham-bridge-on-the-river-tavy-near-buckland-monachorum-r1131329, accessed 23 April 2024.