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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Blenheim Park, with the Grand Bridge and the Palace across the Lake 1830

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Blenheim Park, with the Grand Bridge and the Palace across the Lake’ 1830
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 5 Verso:
Blenheim Park, with the Grand Bridge and the Palace across the Lake 1830
D21983
Turner Bequest CCXXXVIII 5a
Pencil on white wove paper, 120 x 203 mm
Partial watermark ‘R Ba | 18’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
To the south-east the entrance front of Blenheim Palace is seen, above its lake in the foreground with the Grand Bridge on the left. The house is continued on folio 6 recto opposite (D21984), with the lake curving away to the south among trees. A similar view, from nearer the bridge, is on folios 4 verso–5 recto (D21981, D21982); others are discussed under D21981.
Eric Shanes has related the present sketch to a ‘colour beginning’ (Tate D25489; Turner Bequest CCLXIII 366) for Turner’s watercolour of Blenheim,1 discussed under folio 12 verso (D21995). For other views of Blenheim, see under folio 2 verso (D21978).

Matthew Imms
August 2013

1
Shanes 1997, p.53.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Blenheim Park, with the Grand Bridge and the Palace across the Lake 1830 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 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-blenheim-park-with-the-grand-bridge-and-the-palace-across-r1148625, accessed 25 April 2024.