Joseph Mallord William Turner

Westminster Bridge, with the Abbey Seen across the River

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: 114 × 175 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D00894
Turner Bequest XXXIII W

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This is an unfinished study for the subject published in the Copper-Plate Magazine, 1 August 1797;1 the finished watercolour is at Aberystwyth University.2 Rawlinson mistakenly considered the present study the finished design.

Rawlinson I 1908, pp.lxxxvii, 5 no.10.

Wilton 1979, p.311 no.96, reproduced.

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Andrew Wilton
April 2012

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Joseph Mallord William Turner

Westminster Bridge, with the Abbey Seen across the River

c.1796

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Westminster Bridge and Abbey from the North East

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