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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Four Sketches; Two of Boats and Two of Walton Bridge c.1816-19

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Four Sketches; Two of Boats and Two of Walton Bridge’ c.1816-19
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 48 Recto:
Four Sketches; Two of Boats and Two of Walton Bridge circa 1816–19
D10490
Turner Bequest CXL 42
Pencil on white wove paper, 95 x 155 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘White’ to right of top subject, and ‘W’ and ‘Timber’ within arches of Walton Bridge’ below centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘42’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CXL 42’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner shows the two portions of Walton Bridge as rebuilt by James Paine. The upper sketch shows a section with its distinctive fan-shaped piers (see also folios 47 and 51 (D10488, D10496; Turner Bequest CXL 41, 45) and white stone trim, noticed in Turner’s colour notes. The bridge underneath is the other section with its irregular arches. Collectively the studies of Walton Bridge in this sketchbook might be associated with the watercolour (private collection)1 ngraved by J.C. Varrall in 1830 for Picturesque Views in England and Wales.

David Blayney Brown
July 2011

1
Andrew Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg 1979, p.396 no.824.

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Four Sketches; Two of Boats and Two of Walton Bridge c.1816–19 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 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-four-sketches-two-of-boats-and-two-of-walton-bridge-r1131483, accessed 26 April 2024.