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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Sandycombe Lodge c.1808-12 > Sandycombe and Yorkshire Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Valley with a Distant Bridge and Hills c.1809-10

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Valley with a Distant Bridge and Hills’ c.1809-10
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
A Valley with a Distant Bridge and Hills circa 1809–10
D09015
Turner Bequest CXXVII 36
Pencil on white wove paper, 125 x 201 mm
Part watermark ‘H Sa | 18’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘36’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXXVII 36’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
As set out in the Introduction, this sketchbook contains identified views of Cumbria and Sussex, although the present sketch, lacking prominent landmarks, cannot presently be associated with certainty with either county.
Technical notes:
This is one of a few single leaves which, with a greater number of loose bifolio sheets, constitute the so-called Sandycombe and Yorkshire sketchbook. The folded sheets were not bound, but placed inside each other in a sequence which is not entirely recoverable (see the sketchbook’s Introduction for a suggested order).
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Matthew Imms
January 2012

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Valley with a Distant Bridge and Hills c.1809–10 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2012, 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-valley-with-a-distant-bridge-and-hills-r1134726, accessed 26 April 2024.