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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > County Durham and Northumberland 1817 > Durham, North Shore, Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Bridges in a Valley, Probably on the Moors near Bowes 1817

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Bridges in a Valley, Probably on the Moors near Bowes’ 1817
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 33 Recto:
Bridges in a Valley, Probably on the Moors near Bowes 1817
D12366
Turner Bequest CLVII 33
Pencil on white wove paper, 116 x 185 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘33’ bottom right (now faint)
Stamped in black ‘CLVII – 33’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This one of a sequence of mostly unidentified landscape sketches running from folio 27 verso (D12355) to the present page, with a further two on folio 50 recto (D12384) and folios 51 verso–52 recto (D12386, D12387). As discussed in the entry for folio 27 verso, they are likely to show scenes on the moors and hills around Bowes, south-west of Barnard Castle.
There is a narrow bridge in the right foreground with what may be foliage beyond, and another bridge lightly indicated on the left. Further up the valley, below two distant peaks, is a small building. Although Finberg brackets this page with folio 32 verso opposite (D12365), the latter is actually blank, save for a very slight, probably accidental, pencil stroke well away from the present drawing.

Matthew Imms
February 2010

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Bridges in a Valley, Probably on the Moors near Bowes 1817 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 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-bridges-in-a-valley-probably-on-the-moors-near-bowes-r1139367, accessed 25 April 2024.