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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Bridges over a Waterfall, at Devil's Bridge ?1792

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Bridges over a Waterfall, at Devil's Bridge’ ?1792
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Two Bridges over a Waterfall, at Devil’s Bridge ?1792
D40037
Pencil on white wove paper, 271 x 224 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘30’ alongside upper fall, ‘15’ by second fall, and ‘5[0]’ by lower fall
Stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram bottom left
Inscribed in pencil ‘XII.I’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a slight sketch. Other studies of waterfalls in the same area are Tate D00137 and D00140 (Turner Bequest XII H, K) and the recto of this sheet (D00138; Turner Bequest XII I).
The lowest of Turner’s inscribed numbers is now partly illegible from damage sustained in the 1928 Tate flood.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Two Bridges over a Waterfall, at Devil’s Bridge ?1792 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-two-bridges-over-a-waterfall-at-devils-bridge-r1141131, accessed 23 April 2024.