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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Grand Bridge over the Lake in Blenheim Park, with the Palace Beyond 1830

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Grand Bridge over the Lake in Blenheim Park, with the Palace Beyond’ 1830
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 4 Verso:
The Grand Bridge over the Lake in Blenheim Park, with the Palace Beyond 1830
D21981
Turner Bequest CCXXXVIII 4a
Pencil on white wove paper, 120 x 203 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The view is to the south-east, towards the entrance front of Blenheim Palace, set above the lake in the foreground with the Grand Bridge on the left. The view continues on folio 5 recto opposite (D21982), where the lake curves away to the south between the woods beyond the house. There is a similar view, from a little westwards along the bank, on folios 5 verso–6 recto (D21983, D21984), and a slighter one from east of the bridge on folios 6 verso–7 recto (D21985, D21986).
Eric Shanes has related the present sketch to a ‘colour beginning’ (Tate D25489; Turner Bequest CCLXIII 366) for Turner’s watercolour of Blenheim,1 discussed under folio 12 verso (D21995). For other views of Blenheim, see under folio 2 verso (D21978).

Matthew Imms
August 2013

1
Shanes 1997, p.53.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The Grand Bridge over the Lake in Blenheim Park, with the Palace Beyond 1830 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2013, 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-the-grand-bridge-over-the-lake-in-blenheim-park-with-the-r1148623, accessed 25 April 2024.