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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Tummel Bridge from the East 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Tummel Bridge from the East’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Tummel Bridge from the East 1801
D03418
Turner Bequest LVIII 39
Pencil on white wove paper prepared with a grey–buff wash, 344 x 489 mm
Stamped in black ‘LVIII – 39’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This drawing is the basis for a small oil painting, now at the Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven.1 Other drawings of Tummel Bridge are on Tate D41441 (the verso of D03417; Turner Bequest LVIII 38) and Tate D03419 (Turner Bequest LVIII 40).
1
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, p.32 no.41, pl.37.
Verso:
Blank

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Tummel Bridge from the East 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-tummel-bridge-from-the-east-r1179807, accessed 25 April 2024.