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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Blenheim Palace and the Grand Bridge 1830

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Blenheim Palace and the Grand Bridge’ 1830
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 11 Verso:
Blenheim Palace and the Grand Bridge 1830
D21993
Turner Bequest CCXXXVIII 11a
Pencil on white wove paper, 120 x 203 mm
Partial watermark ‘nard | 20’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a more detailed treatment, from a similar viewpoint, of the sketch on folios 10 verso–11 recto (D21991, D21992). On the far left, in summary outline, is the Woodstock Gate, with Blenheim Palace to the south, beyond the wooded slopes around Queen Pool. The subject continues across folio 12 recto opposite (D21994), with the Grand Bridge among trees to the south-west. Of the views of the park beginning on folio 4 verso (D21981), Andrew Wilton and Eric Shanes have related the present double-page study to Turner’s subsequent watercolour (see under folio 12 verso; D21995).1
For other views of Blenheim, see under folio 2 verso (D21978).

Matthew Imms
August 2013

1
Wilton 1979, p.399 under no.846, as CCXXXVIII ‘pp. 11–12’; Shanes 1979, p.156.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Blenheim Palace and the Grand Bridge 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-palace-and-the-grand-bridge-r1148635, accessed 18 April 2024.