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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Road with Houses and a Bridge over a River beneath the Walls of a Castle ?1797

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Road with Houses and a Bridge over a River beneath the Walls of a Castle’ ?1797
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
A Road with Houses and a Bridge over a River beneath the Walls of a Castle ?1797
D00852
Turner Bequest XXXI J
Pencil and grey and blue-grey washes on white wove paper, backed with another sheet, 249 x 311 mm
Stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XXXI J’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Verso:
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘K’; grey paint trials; the sheet stained; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Road with Houses and a Bridge over a River beneath the Walls of a Castle ?1797 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2012, 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-a-road-with-houses-and-a-bridge-over-a-river-beneath-the-r1140065, accessed 19 April 2024.