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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Landscape with a Flock of Sheep Crossing a Bridge, with a Calf, Sheep and Pigs in the Foreground 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Landscape with a Flock of Sheep Crossing a Bridge, with a Calf, Sheep and Pigs in the Foreground’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 35 Recto:
Landscape with a Flock of Sheep Crossing a Bridge, with a Calf, Sheep and Pigs in the Foreground 1801
D02519
Turner Bequest LIII 35
Pencil on white wove paper, 112 x 162 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘35’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘LIII – 35’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The scene is perhaps at Weldon Bridge, near Brinkburn (see folio 34 recto; D02517). Turner would have crossed the River Coquet here on the road north from Morpeth towards Wooler and Berwick.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Landscape with a Flock of Sheep Crossing a Bridge, with a Calf, Sheep and Pigs in the Foreground 1801 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 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-landscape-with-a-flock-of-sheep-crossing-a-bridge-with-a-r1178541, accessed 20 September 2024.