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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > Bristol and Malmesbury 1791 > Bristol and Malmesbury Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner View along the Avon, with Cook's Folly on the Right-Hand Bank 1791

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View along the Avon, with Cook's Folly on the Right-Hand Bank’ 1791
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 5 Verso:
View along the Avon, with Cook’s Folly on the Right-Hand Bank 1791
D00077
Turner Bequest VI 5a
Pencil on white wove paper, 185 x 263 mm
Stamped in black ink with Turner Bequest monogram top right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing is inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation. Views taken from Cook’s Folly are on folios 9 recto and 24 recto (D00082, D00107).

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘View along the Avon, with Cook’s Folly on the Right-Hand Bank 1791 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-view-along-the-avon-with-cooks-folly-on-the-right-hand-bank-r1140126, accessed 25 April 2024.