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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The London Bridge Foundation Stone Ceremony: The Marquee beside Old London Bridge 1825

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The London Bridge Foundation Stone Ceremony: The Marquee beside Old London Bridge’ 1825
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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The London Bridge Foundation Stone Ceremony: The Marquee beside Old London Bridge 1825
D18707
Turner Bequest CCXIII 1a
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 187 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The arches of Old London Bridge are seen here downstream on the River Thames from the west; the view continues to the right on folio 2 recto opposite (D18708).

Matthew Imms
December 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The London Bridge Foundation Stone Ceremony: The Marquee beside Old London Bridge 1825 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-london-bridge-foundation-stone-ceremony-the-marquee-r1172829, accessed 24 April 2024.