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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Bridge across the ?River Toce 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Bridge across the ?River Toce’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 42 Verso:
Bridge across the ?River Toce 1819
D16967
Turner Bequest CXCIV 42 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 121 x 195 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch depicts a bridge crossing a shallow river within wooded landscape. A group of buildings can be seen on the hill to the left of the bridge and a couple of figures appear on the banks of the river near the right-hand foreground. The location is currently unidentified although it may represent a view within the valley of the Toce river between Domodossola and Vogogna. Federico Crimi has suggested that it represents a bridge over the River Ticino near the village Pombia, south of Arona.1

Nicola Moorby
May 2011

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Crimi 2007, p.37 note 52. Crimi suggests comparing the view with a drawing within the Rome, Turin and Milan sketchbook, 1828 (Tate D21667; Turner Bequest CCXXXV 2a).

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Bridge across the ?River Toce 1819 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-bridge-across-the-river-toce-r1132842, accessed 26 April 2024.