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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Wooden Bridge over a Stream Falling between Rocky Banks 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Wooden Bridge over a Stream Falling between Rocky Banks’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 21 Recto:
A Wooden Bridge over a Stream Falling between Rocky Banks 1801
D03317
Turner Bequest LVII 21
Pencil with scraping–out on white cartridge paper prepared with a grey–buff ground, 118 x 149 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘21’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘LVII – 21’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the pages turned horizontally, this is a continuation of the subject on folio 20 verso opposite (D03316).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Wooden Bridge over a Stream Falling between Rocky Banks 1801 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-wooden-bridge-over-a-stream-falling-between-rocky-banks-r1179515, accessed 25 April 2024.