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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The London Bridge Foundation Stone Ceremony: The Marquee beside Old London Bridge, with Construction Work 1825

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The London Bridge Foundation Stone Ceremony: The Marquee beside Old London Bridge, with Construction Work’ 1825
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 84 Recto:
The London Bridge Foundation Stone Ceremony: The Marquee beside Old London Bridge, with Construction Work 1825
D18828
Turner Bequest CCXIII 84
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 187 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘84’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘CCXIII – 84’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this slight indication of the west side of Old London Bridge, looking down-river with sails or cranes in the foreground, is a continuation of the main part of the view, on folio 83 verso opposite (D18827).

Matthew Imms
December 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The London Bridge Foundation Stone Ceremony: The Marquee beside Old London Bridge, with Construction Work 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-the-london-bridge-foundation-stone-ceremony-the-marquee-r1172950, accessed 20 September 2024.