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
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The Roman Bridge at Pont St Martin, Val d’Aosta 1836
D29352
Turner Bequest CCXCIV 75a
Pencil on white wove paper, 104 x 148 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the Roman bridge at Pont St Martin, Val d’Aosta, as also painted by Turner in a similar view in watercolour (currently untraced).1

David Hill
June 2010

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, 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-r1144902, accessed 25 April 2024.