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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Road and Bridge: St Martin and Sallanches 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Road and Bridge: St Martin and Sallanches’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 42 Recto:
A Road and Bridge: St Martin and Sallanches 1802
D04634
Turner Bequest LXXV 42
Pencil, chalk, watercolour and gouache on white wove paper prepared with grey wash, 315 x 473 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘42’ and blue ink ‘21’ bottom right
Stamped ‘LXXV 43’ bottom left, descending vertically
Blind-stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram towards bottom right
Turner’s label, numbered ‘21’ as is the drawing, reads ‘le Arve – Salenche. Savoy’, and may have accounted for the location suggested by Finberg, ‘Possibly Sallanches’. The humped bridge must be that over the River Arve at St Martin. For St Martin and Sallanches in this sketchbook see notes to D04602; Turner Bequest LXXV 10.
The sheet is damaged and repaired at the bottom left corner.
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David Blayney Brown
October 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘A Road and Bridge: St Martin and Sallanches 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, October 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-road-and-bridge-st-martin-and-sallanches-r1146500, accessed 20 September 2024.