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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Scotland 1818-20 > Bass Rock and Edinburgh Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Pease Bridge, Cockburnspath, Berwickshire 1818

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Pease Bridge, Cockburnspath, Berwickshire’ 1818
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 33 Recto:
Pease Bridge, Cockburnspath, Berwickshire 1818
D13379
Turner Bequest CLXV 33
Pencil on white laid paper, 159 x 99 mm
Stamped in black ‘CLXV 33’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the book turned to the left, this page contains two drawings, the uppermost a drawing of Pease Bridge, as depicted on the previous page (folio 32 verso; D13378; CLXV 32a), and at the bottom, a view, presumably of the Dean Pease which the bridge crosses. Both sketches are slight and show the landscape with a few scribbled lines that not only indicate the main topographical features, but are animated enough to give a sense of their wild and rugged character. The sketches were probably made en route to North Berwick and Edinburgh, and may have been taken from a coach window.

Thomas Ardill
October 2007

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Pease Bridge, Cockburnspath, Berwickshire 1818 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, October 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-pease-bridge-cockburnspath-berwickshire-r1131921, accessed 26 April 2024.