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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Cheshire, Derbyshire, North Wales ... > Tabley No.2 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Bridge 1808

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Bridge’ 1808
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 34 Verso:
A Bridge 1808
D06900
Turner Bequest CIV 33a
Pencil on white laid paper, 98 x 162 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Grey’ and ‘Green’ within image, left and right of centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted. The subject is unidentified, but see Introduction to the sketchbook for Turner’s excursion into North Wales from Tabley in 1808

David Blayney Brown
May 2010

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘A Bridge 1808 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2010, 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-a-bridge-r1133656, accessed 26 April 2024.