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 Three-Arched Bridge among Wooded Hills, Probably in South Devon 1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Three-Arched Bridge among Wooded Hills, Probably in South Devon’ 1814
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 120 Verso:
A Three-Arched Bridge among Wooded Hills, Probably in South Devon 1814
D09617
Turner Bequest CXXXII 120a
Pencil on white wove paper, 90 x 152 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this scene with a three-arched bridge in a wooded river valley, is presently unidentified, but probably in south Devon from its context in the sketchbook.

Matthew Imms
June 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Three-Arched Bridge among Wooded Hills, 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-among-wooded-hills-probably-in-south-r1147166, accessed 25 April 2024.