Joseph Mallord William Turner

Blenheim Palace and the Grand Bridge

1830

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: Kenilworth Sketchbook
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 120 × 203 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D21994
Turner Bequest CCXXXVIII 12

Catalogue entry

This is a full-page continuation of the view on folio 11 verso opposite (D21993), under which the subject is discussed. Of the views of the park beginning on folio 4 verso (D21981), Andrew Wilton and Eric Shanes have related the present double-page study to Turner’s subsequent watercolour (see under folio 12 verso; D21995).1 For other views of Blenheim, see under folio 2 verso (D21978).

Matthew Imms
August 2013

Wilton 1979, p.399 under no.846, as CCXXXVIII ‘pp. 11–12’; Shanes 1979, p.156.

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