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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Copy after Richard Wilson: The Bridge of Augustus at Rimini 1796-7

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Copy after Richard Wilson: The Bridge of Augustus at Rimini’ 1796-7
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 42 Verso:
Copy after Richard Wilson: The Bridge of Augustus at Rimini 1796–7
D01203
Turner Bequest XXXVII 86
Pencil with grey wash and white chalk on blue laid wrapping paper prepared with a red-brown wash, 113 x 93 mm
Stamped in black ‘XXXVII – 86’ 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 43 recto opposite (D01204; Turner Bequest XXXVII 87). This is a memorandum, probably of the picture thought to have been in the collection of the then Prince of Wales (later George IV),1 apparently a companion to that copied by Turner on folios 38 verso–39 recto (D01195–D01196; Turner Bequest XXXVII 78–79). An alternative source might be the engraved version of this picture made by Joseph Farington and published by Boydell in 1776.

Andrew Wilton
September 2012

1
See W.G. Constable, Richard Wilson, London 1953, p.212 under notes to pl.99a.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Copy after Richard Wilson: The Bridge of Augustus at Rimini 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-copy-after-richard-wilson-the-bridge-of-augustus-at-rimini-r1149893, accessed 19 April 2024.