Joseph Mallord William Turner

A West Country Bridge, Possibly near Falmouth

1811

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Devonshire Coast, No.1 Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 75 × 117 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D08573
Turner Bequest CXXIII 108

Catalogue entry

Five arches of a medieval stone bridge are shown. There are buildings and hills in the distance on the right. The site is perhaps in the vicinity of Falmouth, Cornwall, which is shown on the verso (D08574; CXXIII 108a), although the sequence of drawings in this sketchbook is far from tallying precisely with Turner’s 1811 West Country route (see the introduction to the tour).
Technical notes:
There is some ink offsetting from the inscription on folio 110 verso opposite (D08572; CXXIII 107a).

Matthew Imms
June 2011

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