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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Distant Views of Lyon; and a Study of a Bridge 1820

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Distant Views of Lyon; and a Study of a Bridge’ 1820
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 33 Verso:
?Distant Views of Lyon; and a Study of a Bridge 1820
D16704
Turner Bequest CXCII 32 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 98 x 128 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains two distinct sketches. The uppermost vista depicts a bridge across a river with mountains in the distance and is tentatively identified as a distant prospect of the city of Lyon.1 Compare similar features on folio 37 verso (D16712; Turner Bequest CXCII 36a). At the bottom is a study of a bridge.

Nicola Moorby
April 2013

1
Finberg identified the subject as ‘The Plain outside Beauvoisin’, although it is not clear how he arrived at this conclusion. Finberg 1909, I, p.572.

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘?Distant Views of Lyon; and a Study of a Bridge 1820 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-distant-views-of-lyon-and-a-study-of-a-bridge-r1142604, accessed 19 April 2024.