Joseph Mallord William Turner

Bridge and Cows

c.1806–7

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In Tate Britain

Prints and Drawings Room

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Liber Studiorum: The Frontispiece and Parts 1-4
Medium
Graphite and watercolour on paper
Dimensions
Support: 185 x 258 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D08102
Turner Bequest CXVI A

Display caption

Both this and the work exhibited to the   left were executed as part of Turner’s Liber Studiorum project: a series of landscapes in six categories to be engraved and published. The majority of the engravings were after watercolours on a pastoral theme, of which this is an example.

Gallery label, August 2004

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