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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Abingdon Bridge 1805

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 41 Recto:
Abingdon Bridge 1805
D05900
Turner Bequest XCIV 41
Pencil on white wove paper, prepared with a grey wash, 143 x 228 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘41’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XCIV 41’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
For Abingdon Bridge see folios 4 and 40 verso of the sketchbook (D05850, D05899); the present sketch is, as Hill notes, a continuation of the latter view, to the right.

David Blayney Brown
December 2007

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Abingdon Bridge 1805 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 2007, 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-abingdon-bridge-r1130123, accessed 29 March 2024.