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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Shropshire Union Canal Cutting with the Bridge of Sighs and Northgate Bridge, Chester ?1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Shropshire Union Canal Cutting with the Bridge of Sighs and Northgate Bridge, Chester’ ?1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 60 Recto:
The Shropshire Union Canal Cutting with the Bridge of Sighs and Northgate Bridge, Chester ?1831
D22261
Turner Bequest CCXXXIX 60
Pencil on white wove paper, 191 x 114 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘60’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCXXXIX – 60’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned vertically, the top view is along the Shropshire Union Canal cutting at Chester, with the Bridge of Sighs and Northgate Bridge below the cupola of the Bluecoat School on Northgate, looking east. Underneath is another view of the bridges, seen from the opposite direction. There is another view on folio 47 recto (D22237), under which the subject is discussed; the bridges also appear in the distance on the verso of the present leaf (D22262).
For other views of Chester, see under folio 14 verso (D22176).

Matthew Imms
April 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The Shropshire Union Canal Cutting with the Bridge of Sighs and Northgate Bridge, Chester ?1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 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-the-shropshire-union-canal-cutting-with-the-bridge-of-sighs-r1148907, accessed 25 April 2024.