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 Bridges, Perhaps in South Devon 1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Bridges, Perhaps in South Devon’ 1814
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 116 Recto:
Bridges, Perhaps in South Devon 1814
D09609
Turner Bequest CXXXII 116
Pencil on white wove paper, 90 x 152 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘116’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXXXII – 116’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This slight sketch is difficult to make out clearly. With a two-arched bridge at the centre, hills above, trees to the left and what may be the approach to a bridge at the bottom centre, it may be comprise separate studies rather than a single landscape. From the page’s context in the sketchbook, these unidentified elements were perhaps observed in south Devon.
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Matthew Imms
June 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Bridges, Perhaps in South 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-bridges-perhaps-in-south-devon-r1147158, accessed 19 September 2024.