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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Tour of Yorkshire 1816 > Yorkshire 5 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Kirkby Lonsdale Bridge, with a Path and Cattle 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Kirkby Lonsdale Bridge, with a Path and Cattle’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 4 Recto:
Kirkby Lonsdale Bridge, with a Path and Cattle 1816
D11527
Turner Bequest CXLVIII 5
Pencil on white wove paper, 173 x 260 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Path’ and ‘Cattle’
Stamped in black ‘TB CXLVIII 5’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn inverted in relation to the main numbered sequence of subjects in this sketchbook, this sketch may record Turner’s first impression of Kirkby Lonsdale Bridge as he scrambled down the right bank of the River Lune to view the structure from downstream. A second sketch on folio 3 verso opposite (D11526; Turner Bequest CXLVIII 4c) shows a slightly more distant view, and he also made preliminary sketches in the Yorkshire 2 sketchbook (Tate D11128, D11127; Turner Bequest CXLV 60, 59a).
For Kirkby Lonsdale Bridge see notes to D11526. The present writer has dated Turner’s sketches of Kirkby Lonsdale to Friday 9 August and Saturday 10 August 1816.

David Hill
May 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Kirkby Lonsdale Bridge, with a Path and Cattle 1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2009, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-kirkby-lonsdale-bridge-with-a-path-and-cattle-r1143664, accessed 18 April 2024.