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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Virginia Water, with the Chinese Fishing Temple Beyond and the Five Arch Bridge in the Distance c.1827

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Virginia Water, with the Chinese Fishing Temple Beyond and the Five Arch Bridge in the Distance’ c.1827
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 81 Recto:
Virginia Water, with the Chinese Fishing Temple Beyond and the Five Arch Bridge in the Distance c.1827
D22128
Turner Bequest CCXXXVIII 79
Pencil on white wove paper, 120 x 203 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘79’ bottom left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘CCXXXVIII – 79’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this view to the west across Virginia Water with the Five Arch Bridge in the distance, continues on folio 80 verso opposite (D22127; Turner Bequest CCXXXVIII 78a), where the Chinese Fishing Temple appears. The bridge is also seen on folio 88 recto (D22141; Turner Bequest CCXXXVIII 86); designed by Sir Jeffry Wyattville (1766–1840), it was completed in 1827.1
For other views around Virginia Water, see under folio 73 verso (D22113; Turner Bequest CCXXXVIII 71a).

Matthew Imms
August 2013

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See ‘Image Gallery’, The Royal Landscape, accessed 15 June 2013, http://www.theroyallandscape.co.uk/gardens-and-landscape/virginia-water/image-gallery/.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Virginia Water, with the Chinese Fishing Temple Beyond and the Five Arch Bridge in the Distance c.1827 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-virginia-water-with-the-chinese-fishing-temple-beyond-and-r1148769, accessed 26 April 2024.