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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Wooded Landscape with a Bridge 1808

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Wooded Landscape with a Bridge’ 1808
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Wooded Landscape with a Bridge 1808
D06851
Turner Bequest CIII 21
Watercolour on off-white wove paper, 226 x 295 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This leaf is detached from the sketchbook and mounted separately.
As Finberg recognised, this composition in monochrome wash has some similarities to designs made for Turner’s series of landscape compositions, the Liber Studiorum, and indeed there is a list of several subjects for it inside the back cover of the original sketchbook (D40721). However, there may be no real connection and the unidentified subject was not developed further, or engraved.
Verso:
See D40065, with inscriptions

David Blayney Brown
July 2010

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Wooded Landscape with a Bridge 1808 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 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-wooded-landscape-with-a-bridge-r1134496, accessed 25 April 2024.