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 Three-Arched Bridge with a Distant Church Tower, Probably in South Devon 1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Three-Arched Bridge with a Distant Church Tower, Probably in South Devon’ 1814
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 118 Recto:
A Three-Arched Bridge with a Distant Church Tower, Probably in South Devon 1814
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Turner Bequest CXXXII 118
Pencil on white wove paper, 90 x 152 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘118’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXXXII – 118’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This scene, with a three-arched stone bridge in the foreground and a square church tower on the skyline beyond, is presently unidentified, but probably in south Devon from its context in the sketchbook. The dark shapes below the bridge may be cattle.

Matthew Imms
June 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Three-Arched Bridge with a Distant Church Tower, Probably 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-a-three-arched-bridge-with-a-distant-church-tower-probably-r1147161, accessed 26 April 2024.