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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Tabley: Bridge to the Old Hall 1808

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Tabley: Bridge to the Old Hall’ 1808
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 4 Recto:
?Tabley: Bridge to the Old Hall 1808
D06987
Turner Bequest CV 4
Pencil on white wove paper, 108 x 185 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ?‘Colford 64’ top right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘4’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CV 4’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
For Turner’s visit to Tabley in 1808, see Introduction to the sketchbook. Following two rapid sketches of St Peter’s Chapel alongside the Old Hall on folios 2 and 3 (D06985, D06986) this equally hurried sketch might be identified as the bridge leading to the island in the Moat on which the buildings stood.
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David Blayney Brown
June 2010

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘?Tabley: Bridge to the Old Hall 1808 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2010, 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-tabley-bridge-to-the-old-hall-r1134504, accessed 23 April 2024.