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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Town Seen from near a Bridge over a River; with a Study of a Chimney Stack and Pot c.1794

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Town Seen from near a Bridge over a River; with a Study of a Chimney Stack and Pot’ c.1794
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 26 Verso:
A Town Seen from near a Bridge over a River; with a Study of a Chimney Stack and Pot c.1794
D00296
Turner Bequest XX 26a
Pencil on white laid paper, 152 x 99 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing, inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, is continued on folio 27 recto opposite (D00297). The town may be Aylesford in Kent.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Town Seen from near a Bridge over a River; with a Study of a Chimney Stack and Pot c.1794 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2012, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-town-seen-from-near-a-bridge-over-a-river-with-a-study-of-r1140689, accessed 05 April 2026.