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 1825

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The London Bridge Foundation Stone Ceremony: The Marquee beside Old London Bridge’ 1825
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 91 Recto:
The London Bridge Foundation Stone Ceremony: The Marquee beside Old London Bridge 1825
D18838
Turner Bequest CCXIII 89
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 187 mm
Part watermark ‘R Bar | 18’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘89’ top left, upside down (now very faint)
Stamped in black ‘CCXIII – 89’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, the Monument and the tower of St Magnus the Martyr are shown to the north-east across the River Thames beyond Old London Bridge in this part of the drawing, which extends across folio 90 verso opposite (D18837; Turner Bequest CCXIII 88a).
Verso:
Blank, save for ‘2’ inscribed in pencil by a later hand bottom right.

Matthew Imms
December 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The London Bridge Foundation Stone Ceremony: The Marquee beside Old London Bridge 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-r1172964, accessed 24 April 2024.