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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Manchester, Blackfriar's Bridge 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Manchester, Blackfriar's Bridge’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 19 Recto:
Manchester, Blackfriar’s Bridge 1831
D25674
Turner Bequest CCLXV 19
Pencil on white wove paper, 59 x 96 mm
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘19’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXV 19’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is one several quick sketches that Turner made of the bridges, churches and mills as seen from the River Irwell near the Collegiate Church at Manchester. This view may be looking south-west along the river from the predecessor to Victoria Bridge. The church steeple on the left is seen again in a sketch on folio 37 (D25708) and may be St Mary’s Church, which stood between Deansgate and the River Irwell.1 The church on the right may be Trinity Church on the Salford side the River.

Thomas Ardill
September 2010

1
Joseph Aston, A Picture of Manchester, third edition, Manchester 1826, p.88.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Manchester, Blackfriar’s Bridge 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 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-manchester-blackfriars-bridge-r1134038, accessed 26 April 2024.