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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Scotland 1834 > Loch Ard Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Bridge, with Mountains 1834

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Bridge, with Mountains’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 5 Verso:
Bridge, with Mountains 1834
D26684
Turner Bequest CCLXXII 10
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 184 x 119 mm
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘10’ top right running vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXII 10’ top right running vertically
Inscribed in pencil by an unknown hand ‘19’ top left running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
At the outer edge of the page, drawn with the sketchbook in the portrait format, is a rough sketch of a two-arch bridge with trees and a stream in the foreground, and mountains in the distance. Turner’s depiction of the bridge is too generalised and the mountains are too vague to make any firm identifications, though it is worth comparing this sketch to sketches of a bridge on folio 33 verso which may be at Aberfoyle (Tate D26740; Turner Bequest CCLXXII 39).

Thomas Ardill
March 2011

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Bridge, with Mountains 1834 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2011, 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-bridge-with-mountains-r1136377, accessed 20 April 2024.