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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country and Yorkshire 1814-17 > Devon Rivers, No.1 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Stone Bridge with Three Arches in a Wooded Valley, Probably in North Devon 1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Stone Bridge with Three Arches in a Wooded Valley, Probably in North Devon’ 1814
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 63 Recto:
A Stone Bridge with Three Arches in a Wooded Valley, Probably in North Devon 1814
D09547
Turner Bequest CXXXII 63
Pencil on white wove paper, 90 x 152 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘63’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXXXII – 63’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This three-arched bridge over a river among trees is presently unidentified, but probably in north Devon from its context in the sketchbook. There appears to be a village with a square church tower in the distance below the hill on the right.
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Matthew Imms
June 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Stone Bridge with Three Arches in a Wooded Valley, Probably in North Devon 1814 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-stone-bridge-with-three-arches-in-a-wooded-valley-probably-r1147094, accessed 24 April 2024.