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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Westminster Bridge and Abbey from the North East c.1796

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Westminster Bridge and Abbey from the North East’ c.1796
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Westminster Bridge and Abbey from the North East c.1796
D00884
Turner Bequest XXXIII M
Pencil, watercolour and white gouache on buff laid paper, 132 x 206 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XXXIII – M’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Although on a slightly larger sheet of different paper, this is probably, like Tate D00894 (Turner Bequest XXXIII W), an unfinished design intended for the Copper-Plate Magazine, on which Turner worked for the engraver-publisher John Walker from 1794; see the introductory note to the Matlock sketchbook (Tate; Turner Bequest XIX). He may have decided that he wished to develop the second subject, rather than this one, into a finished view to be engraved.
Verso:
Blank; some paint splashes.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Westminster Bridge and Abbey from the North East c.1796 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-westminster-bridge-and-abbey-from-the-north-east-r1141199, accessed 20 April 2024.