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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscription by Turner: Notes on Flags at the London Bridge Foundation Stone Ceremony 1825

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscription by Turner: Notes on Flags at the London Bridge Foundation Stone Ceremony’ 1825
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Inscription by Turner: Notes on Flags at the London Bridge Foundation Stone Ceremony 1825
D18820
Turner Bequest CCXIII 79a
Pencil on white wove paper, 187 x 113 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘[...] Red Col [several small diagrams of flags] | [?E... A...y] w[...] | Naval 4 [...] | [?B] flag G[?r... Red ...]’ at top
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned vertically, Turner has made some rapid notes which appear to relate to the flags flown over the marquee erected on the coffer-dam around the site of the southernmost pier of the new London Bridge, for the foundation stone ceremony held on the riverbed on 15 June 1825.
The ceremony and other studies relating to it at the beginning and end of this sketchbook are discussed in the Introduction.

Matthew Imms
December 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Inscription by Turner: Notes on Flags at the London Bridge Foundation Stone Ceremony 1825 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-inscription-by-turner-notes-on-flags-at-the-london-bridge-r1172942, accessed 19 April 2024.