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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country and Yorkshire 1814-17 > Devon Rivers, No.1 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Wooden Bridge with a Stone Bridge Beyond, Probably in North Devon 1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Wooden Bridge with a Stone Bridge Beyond, Probably in North Devon’ 1814
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 59 Verso:
A Wooden Bridge with a Stone Bridge Beyond, Probably in North Devon 1814
D09543
Turner Bequest CXXXII 59a
Pencil on white wove paper, 90 x 152 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘[?Tawton ...] Bridge with 5 Arches’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This slight sketch may show the same bridges as on the recto (D09542), with a ramshackle wooden structure in the left foreground, and a more substantial stone bridge beyond. They may be somewhere north-east of Okehampton (see under folio 43 recto; D09526), as North Tawton, about eight miles in that direction, appears to be mentioned in Turner’s inscription; this seems to be separate from the drawing, and to refer to the substantial stone bridge over the River Taw.

Matthew Imms
June 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Wooden Bridge with a Stone Bridge Beyond, Probably in North Devon 1814 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-wooden-bridge-with-a-stone-bridge-beyond-probably-in-north-r1147090, accessed 27 April 2024.