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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Copy after Richard Wilson: The Bridge of Augustus at Rimini 1796-7

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Copy after Richard Wilson: The Bridge of Augustus at Rimini’ 1796-7
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 43 Recto:
Copy after Richard Wilson: The Bridge of Augustus at Rimini 1796–7
D01204
Turner Bequest XXXVII 87
Pencil with grey wash and white chalk on blue laid wrapping paper prepared with a red-brown wash, 113 x 93 mm
Stamped in black ‘XXXVII – 87’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, the composition continues across folio 42 verso opposite (D01203; Turner Bequest XXXVII 86), under which the subject is discussed.

Andrew Wilton
September 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Copy after Richard Wilson: The Bridge of Augustus at Rimini 1796–7 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2012, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-copy-after-richard-wilson-the-bridge-of-augustus-at-rimini-r1149894, accessed 26 April 2024.