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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Bridge and Church, ?on the River Yonne, France 1820

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Bridge and Church, ?on the River Yonne, France’ 1820
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 98 Verso:
Bridge and Church, ?on the River Yonne, France 1820
D16873
Turner Bequest CXCIII 97 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 94 x 115 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch probably depicts a view somewhere on the Yonne river in France, a tributary of the Seine which flows through the region of Burgundy (Bourgogne). Turner followed the course of a stretch of the river during his return trip from Italy in January 1820. The vista looks from the one of the river banks towards a bridge with a church on the right-hand side. The same building may appear within another study, see folio 99 (D16874; Turner Bequest CXCIII 98), however, the location currently remains unidentified.

Nicola Moorby
March 2011

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Bridge and Church, ?on the River Yonne, France 1820 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 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-and-church-on-the-river-yonne-france-r1138648, accessed 19 September 2024.