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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Coffer-Dam and Piledrivers on the River Thames above Old London Bridge, with the Shot Tower Beyond 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Coffer-Dam and Piledrivers on the River Thames above Old London Bridge, with the Shot Tower Beyond’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 20 Verso:
A Coffer-Dam and Piledrivers on the River Thames above Old London Bridge, with the Shot Tower Beyond 1824
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Pencil on white wove paper, 100 x 160 mm
Part watermark ‘18’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Not recorded in Finberg’s 1909 Inventory,1 these slight pencil strokes continue the view of Old London Bridge from folio 21 verso (D17953), under which the subject is discussed. The outer half of that leaf was evidently already missing when Turner drew on it, carrying on a short way to the left across the present page with vertical and horizontal elements of the bridge.

Matthew Imms
December 2014

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See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.624.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Coffer-Dam and Piledrivers on the River Thames above Old London Bridge, with the Shot Tower Beyond 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-coffer-dam-and-piledrivers-on-the-river-thames-above-old-r1172669, accessed 20 April 2024.