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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Wooden Footbridge, with the Banks of a River or Stream 1796-7

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Wooden Footbridge, with the Banks of a River or Stream’ 1796-7
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 41 Verso:
A Wooden Footbridge, with the Banks of a River or Stream 1796–7
D01201
Turner Bequest XXXVII 84
Pencil, watercolour and gouache with pen and black ink on blue laid wrapping paper prepared with a red-brown wash, 113 x 93 mm
Stamped in black ‘XXXVII – 84’ top right, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, the composition continues across folio 42 recto opposite (D01202; Turner Bequest XXXVII 85). It is probably a subject noticed along the banks of the Thames near Battersea; see also folios 39 verso–40 recto (D01197–D01198; Turner Bequest XXXVII 80–81).

Andrew Wilton
September 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Wooden Footbridge, with the Banks of a River or Stream 1796–7 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2012, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-wooden-footbridge-with-the-banks-of-a-river-or-stream-r1149891, accessed 25 April 2024.