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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country 1813 > Chemistry and Apuleia Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Bristol: Clifton from across the Avon Gorge c.1813

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Bristol: Clifton from across the Avon Gorge’ c.1813
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 7 Recto:
Bristol: Clifton from across the Avon Gorge c.1813
D09900
Turner Bequest CXXXV 7
Pencil on white wove paper, 88 x 113 mm
Part watermark ‘mott | 1’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘7’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXXXV – 7’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This drawing, with trees, what seems to be a gateway, and distant hills, is the slighter part of a composition which continues on folio 6 verso opposite (D09899), under which the view is discussed.
Technical notes:
A small, ringed spot of foxing at the bottom right shows through from the verso (D09901). There is some heavy pencil offsetting on the right from the opposite page.

Matthew Imms
April 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Bristol: Clifton from across the Avon Gorge c.1813 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 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-bristol-clifton-from-across-the-avon-gorge-r1147855, accessed 25 April 2024.