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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Five-Arched Bridge over a River in a Broad Valley with a Mountain Beyond 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Five-Arched Bridge over a River in a Broad Valley with a Mountain Beyond’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 7 Recto:
A Five-Arched Bridge over a River in a Broad Valley with a Mountain Beyond 1798
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Turner Bequest XXXIX 7
Pencil and gouache on white wove writing paper, 266 x 170 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘7’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XXXIX 7’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg suggested that the view, drawn with the page turned horizontally, is ‘Probably the Vale of Ffestiniog, from near Tan y Bwlch’,1 but revised this opinion later as ‘Probably not’.2
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Finberg 1909, I, p.90.
2
A.J. Finberg, undated MS note to interleaved copy of Finberg 1909, Tate Britain Prints and Drawings Room, I, p.90.
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Five-Arched Bridge over a River in a Broad Valley with a Mountain Beyond 1798 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, 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-five-arched-bridge-over-a-river-in-a-broad-valley-with-a-r1173589, accessed 25 April 2024.