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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Virginia Water, with the Five Arch Bridge and the Chinese Fishing Temple c.1827

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Virginia Water, with the Five Arch Bridge and the Chinese Fishing Temple’ c.1827
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 88 Recto:
Virginia Water, with the Five Arch Bridge and the Chinese Fishing Temple c.1827
D22141
Turner Bequest CCXXXVIII 86
Pencil on white wove paper, 120 x 203 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘86’ bottom left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘CCXXXVIII – 86’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, the Five Arch Bridge is shown to the north-west across Virginia Water; designed by Sir Jeffry Wyattville (1766–1840), it was completed in 1827.1 It also appears on folio 81 recto (D22128; Turner Bequest CCXXXVIII 79).
This view continues across folio 87 verso opposite (D22140; CCXXXVIII 85a), where the Fishing Temple is shown, and again onto folio 85 verso (D22137; CCXXXVIII 83a).
For other views around Virginia Water, see under folio 73 verso (D22113; CCXXXVIII 71a).

Matthew Imms
August 2013

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See ‘Image Gallery’, The Royal Landscape, accessed 15 June 2013, http://www.theroyallandscape.co.uk/gardens-and-landscape/virginia-water/image-gallery/.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Virginia Water, with the Five Arch Bridge and the Chinese Fishing Temple c.1827 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-virginia-water-with-the-five-arch-bridge-and-the-chinese-r1148782, accessed 26 April 2024.