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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Roman Bridge at Pont St Martin, Val d'Aosta 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Roman Bridge at Pont St Martin, Val d'Aosta’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 75 Verso:
The Roman Bridge at Pont St Martin, Val d’Aosta 1836
D29350
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 74a
Pencil on white wove paper, 104 x 148 mm
Watermarked ‘Auondo’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the Roman bridge at Pont St Martin, Val d’Aosta, also drawn on D29352; Turner Bequest CCXCIV 75a in this sketchbook, and afterwards the subject of a watercolour (currently untraced).1

David Hill
June 2010

Revised by David Blayney Brown
August 2013

1
Recorded in a photograph in the Witt Library, Coutauld Institute, London, as ‘Mountainous Scene with River Spanned by Bridge’ and the provenance given as ex Fine Art Society, London (collection of Mrs Bevan), 1946.

How to cite

David Hill, ‘The Roman Bridge at Pont St Martin, Val d’Aosta 1836 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2010, revised by David Blayney Brown, August 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, February 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-roman-bridge-at-pont-st-martin-val-daosta-r1144900, accessed 24 April 2024.