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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Scotland 1834 > Edinburgh Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Deuchar Bridge with Yarrow Kirk and Bridge in the Background, Selkirkshire 1834

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Deuchar Bridge with Yarrow Kirk and Bridge in the Background, Selkirkshire’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 35 Recto:
Deuchar Bridge with Yarrow Kirk and Bridge in the Background, Selkirkshire 1834
D26162
Turner Bequest CCLXVIII 35
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 181 mm
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘35’ bottom left descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLXVIII – 35’ bottom left descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The two-arched bridge depicted here and on folios 34 verso and 35 verso (D26161, D26163) is Deuchar Bridge near the village of Yarrow in Selkirkshire. The village can be seen in the background with Yarrow Kirk and Bridge. Turner passed the bridge as he travelled from St Mary’s Loch to Selkirk on 2 October 1834; see Edinburgh sketchbook Introduction.

Thomas Ardill
January 2011

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Deuchar Bridge with Yarrow Kirk and Bridge in the Background, Selkirkshire 1834 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 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-deuchar-bridge-with-yarrow-kirk-and-bridge-in-the-background-r1136090, accessed 05 April 2026.