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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Bridge across a Ravine, ?near the Bay of Gaeta 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Bridge across a Ravine, ?near the Bay of Gaeta’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 56 Recto:
Bridge across a Ravine, ?near the Bay of Gaeta 1819
D16017
Turner Bequest CLXXXVI 54
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in red ink ‘54’ bottom left, inverted and ‘245’ top left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CLXXXVI 54’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject of this sketch is currently unidentified although it may depict the same bridge and tower visible within a view of the Bay of Gaeta in the Gandolfo to Naples sketchbook (see Tate D15610; Turner Bequest CLXXXIV 27a).
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Nicola Moorby
July 2010

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Bridge across a Ravine, ?near the Bay of Gaeta 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 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-bridge-across-a-ravine-near-the-bay-of-gaeta-r1137941, accessed 24 April 2024.