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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Tour of Yorkshire 1816 > Yorkshire 1 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Bridge at Fountains Abbey 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Bridge at Fountains Abbey’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 39 Verso:
The Bridge at Fountains Abbey 1816
D10941
Turner Bequest CXLIV 39a
Pencil on white wove paper, 97 x 154 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view of the bridge is taken from the same viewpoint to the west of Fountains Abbey as the double-page spread immediately preceding, folios 38a–39 (D10839–D10840), and continuing the panorama to the right.

David Hill
January 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘The Bridge at Fountains Abbey 1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2009, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-bridge-at-fountains-abbey-r1144129, accessed 26 April 2024.