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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?An Arcaded Bridge across a Stream or River among Trees 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?An Arcaded Bridge across a Stream or River among Trees’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 64 Verso:
?An Arcaded Bridge across a Stream or River among Trees 1798
D01416
Turner Bequest XXXIX 59v
Pencil on buff laid wrapping paper, 170 x 266 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg’s suggestion that this drawing, made with the page turned horizontally, represents ‘a bridge or aqueduct’ in the ‘Vale of Llangollen’1 obviously refers to the Pontcysyllte, which Turner drew on folio 40 recto (Tate D01393; Turner Bequest XXXIX 38). But this ignores the scale of the surrounding trees, which indicates that the arcaded structure in the centre of this view is an ornamental bridge or other feature of a private estate.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
Finberg 1909, I, p.91.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘?An Arcaded Bridge across a Stream or River among Trees 1798 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, 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-an-arcaded-bridge-across-a-stream-or-river-among-trees-r1173651, accessed 25 April 2024.