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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sketches of a Village and Bridge; Landscape Sketches 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sketches of a Village and Bridge; Landscape Sketches’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 89 Recto:
Sketches of a Village and Bridge; Landscape Sketches 1824
D19724
Turner Bequest CCXVI 88
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘88’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–88’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook orientated horizontally, Turner has drawn a cursory view of a hilly landscape, possibly the Moselle valley, and a village with a bridge and tall trees. With the sketchbook turned upside down, the beginnings of a further hilly landscape become visible as well as the details of two church spires.

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Sketches of a Village and Bridge; Landscape Sketches 1824 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, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-sketches-of-a-village-and-bridge-landscape-sketches-r1174515, accessed 25 April 2024.