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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Chester and the River Dee from near Grosvenor Bridge ?1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Chester and the River Dee from near Grosvenor Bridge’ ?1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 67 Recto:
Chester and the River Dee from near Grosvenor Bridge ?1831
D22274
Turner Bequest CCXXXIX 67
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 191 mm
Partial watermark ‘R Ba | 18’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘67’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXXXIX – 67’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The view, inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, is north-east across the River Dee to Chester Castle on the right. The viewpoint is the southern approach to Grosvenor Bridge, then under construction, and the prospect is continued to the right to include the Old Dee Bridge on folio 70 recto (D22277; Turner Bequest CCXXXIX 69). Compare the drawing on folio 65 verso (D22272). For other views of Chester, and the history of Grosvenor Bridge, see under folio 14 verso (D22176).
The short pencil mark just below and to the right of the centre is a slight continuation from the church spire on folio 66 recto (D22273), half of which must have already been torn when Turner made the drawing.
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Matthew Imms
April 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Chester and the River Dee from near Grosvenor Bridge ?1831 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-chester-and-the-river-dee-from-near-grosvenor-bridge-r1148920, accessed 19 April 2024.