Joseph Mallord William Turner

Westminster Bridge and Abbey from the North East

c.1796

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Welsh, Isle of Wight and Other Subjects
Medium
Graphite and watercolour on paper
Dimensions
Support: 132 x 206 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D00884
Turner Bequest XXXIII M

Catalogue entry

Although on a slightly larger sheet of different paper, this is probably, like Tate D00894 (Turner Bequest XXXIII W), an unfinished design intended for the Copper-Plate Magazine, on which Turner worked for the engraver-publisher John Walker from 1794; see the introductory note to the Matlock sketchbook (Tate; Turner Bequest XIX). He may have decided that he wished to develop the second subject, rather than this one, into a finished view to be engraved.
Verso:
Blank; some paint splashes.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

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