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

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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 Wooden Bridge, Possibly at Boyton on the River Tamar 1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Wooden Bridge, Possibly at Boyton on the River Tamar’ 1814
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 103 Recto:
A Wooden Bridge, Possibly at Boyton on the River Tamar 1814
D09593
Turner Bequest CXXXII 103
Pencil on white wove paper, 90 x 152 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘[?Boyntn]’ bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘103’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXXXII – 103’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg’s tentative interpretation of Turner’s inscription as indicating Boyton1 may be correct; the village is about four miles north of Launceston (see under folio 106 recto; D09596), on the Cornish side of the River Tamar. If so, the bridge does not survive in this form.
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Finberg 1909, I, p.374.
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Matthew Imms
June 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Wooden Bridge, Possibly at Boyton on the River Tamar 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-wooden-bridge-possibly-at-boyton-on-the-river-tamar-r1147142, accessed 13 May 2024.