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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Scotland 1818-20 > Scotland and London Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Colour Sketch, Perhaps Near London Bridge c.1820

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Colour Sketch, Perhaps Near London Bridge’ c.1820
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 41 Verso:
Colour Sketch, Perhaps Near London Bridge circa 1820
D13856
Turner Bequest CLXX 40a
Watercolour on off-white wove paper, 177 x 256 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Painted with the sketchbook inverted, this watercolour beginning relates to two other studies in the book (folios 13, 14; D13827, D13828; CLXX 12, 13), both of which share the palette of red and yellow (or orange) and grey, and have the same building shapes above a grey area of water. All three studies are likely to relate to sketches of the Custom House and London Bridge elsewhere in the sketchbook (folio 12; D13826; CLXX 11).

Thomas Ardill
August 2009

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Colour Sketch, Perhaps Near London Bridge c.1820 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2009, 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-colour-sketch-perhaps-near-london-bridge-r1132341, accessed 19 September 2024.