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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Kelso Bridge 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Kelso Bridge’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 21 Verso:
Kelso Bridge 1831
D25965
Turner Bequest CCLXVII 21a
Pencil on off-white wove writing paper, 113 x 185 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The faint sketch on this page is of Kelso Bridge from the south-west opposite Kelso to the south. It is closely related to the sketch on folio 19 verso (D25962; CCLXVII 19a) which shows the bridge in more detail. The structure seen through the trees to the left is part of the bridge and can be seen in Turner’s watercolour, Kelso circa 1832 (whereabouts unknown),1 engraved for volume 3 of Sir Walter Scott’s Poetical Works.
At the right of the page is a continuation of a sketch of Haddington Church on folio 22 (D25966; CCLXVII 22).

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.427 no.1074.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Kelso Bridge 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 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-kelso-bridge-r1134335, accessed 25 April 2024.