J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Second Italian Tour 1828-9 > Rome, Turin and Milan Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A ?Bridge 1829

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A ?Bridge’ 1829
Folio 16 Recto:
A ?Bridge 1829
D21694
Turner Bequest CCXXXV 16
Pencil on cream wove paper, 90 x 144 mm
Inscribed in red ink ‘9’ (blurred) bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ink ‘CCXXXV – 9’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg’s 1909 Inventory of the Bequest assigns this work the generic title ‘View’.1 The semicircular lines and rough markings across the centre of the page are too cursory to be identified, although they possibly represent the arches of a bridge. The squiggle above is either a hastily scrawled inscription or a feature of the landscape.

Hannah Kaspar
November 2024

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Finberg 1909, II, p.721.

How to cite

Hannah Kaspar, ‘A ?Bridge 1829’, catalogue entry, November 2024, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, February 2025, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/a-bridge-r1210335, accessed 05 April 2026.