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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Bridge, with Houses at ?Edinburgh 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Bridge, with Houses at ?Edinburgh’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 85 Recto:
Bridge, with Houses at ?Edinburgh 1831
D27150
Turner Bequest CCLXXVII 85
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 104 x 163 mm
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘85’ top right running vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXVII 85’ top right running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Although there is very little architectural or topographical evidence to go on in this slight and rapidly executed sketch, the combination of the bridge arch and buildings at the right are suggestive of part of North Bridge and the Old Town in Edinburgh. There is a view of North Bridge and part of Edinburgh’s New Town on folio 63 (D27127) of this sketchbook.

Thomas Ardill
May 2010

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Bridge, with Houses at ?Edinburgh 1831 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-bridge-with-houses-at-edinburgh-r1135516, accessed 22 September 2024.