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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Liber Studiorum notes c.1807-19 > Aesacus and Hesperie Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Richmond Hill and Bridge c.1819

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Richmond Hill and Bridge’ c.1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 28 Verso:
Richmond Hill and Bridge c.1819
D13795
Turner Bequest CLXIX 28a
Pencil on white wove paper, 87 x 119 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Red tinged Clouds’ top centre and ‘cow’ bottom centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This study of Richmond Bridge in its wooded valley setting, inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, continues across folio 29 recto opposite (D13796), under which the subject is discussed.

Matthew Imms
September 2013

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Richmond Hill and Bridge c.1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2013, 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-richmond-hill-and-bridge-r1147518, accessed 27 April 2024.