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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Croyland: The Triangular Bridge 1794

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Croyland: The Triangular Bridge’ 1794
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 31 Verso:
Croyland: The Triangular Bridge 1794
D00241
Turner Bequest XIX 31a
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 181 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Croyland is usually known as Crowland today. It was visited for its picturesque ruined Abbey, and for this three-arched bridge, supposedly symbolising the Trinity, which is a fourteenth-century structure (with a predecessor perhaps dating to the tenth). Both Abbey and bridge were popular subjects for antiquarian draughtsmen in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Drawings of the Abbey ruins at Crowland are on loose sheets (Tate D00359, D00362; TB XXII F, I). The present drawing is inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Croyland: The Triangular Bridge 1794 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 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-croyland-the-triangular-bridge-r1140759, accessed 20 September 2024.