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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
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 Three-Arched Bridge with a House and a Church Tower Beyond, Probably in South Devon 1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Three-Arched Bridge with a House and a Church Tower Beyond, Probably in South Devon’ 1814
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 145 Verso:
A Three-Arched Bridge with a House and a Church Tower Beyond, Probably in South Devon 1814
D09665
Turner Bequest CXXXII 145a
Pencil on white wove paper, 90 x 152 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This scene, showing a three-arched stone bridge among trees in the foreground, with a square church tower and a house to its left beyond against a hilly skyline, is presently unidentified, but probably in south Devon from its context in the sketchbook. The buildings appear to be the same as those in the view on the recto (D09664).
Technical notes:
The leaf is rubbed and stained halfway down the left-hand edge, and a small loss has been made good. This appears to have been caused by proximity to the brass clasp formerly set into the back cover.

Matthew Imms
June 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Three-Arched Bridge with a House and a Church Tower Beyond, Probably in South 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-three-arched-bridge-with-a-house-and-a-church-tower-beyond-r1147214, accessed 20 September 2024.