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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Bridge, with Houses and Church 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Bridge, with Houses and Church’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 260 Recto:
Bridge, with Houses and Church 1824
D20048
Turner Bequest CCXVI 253
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘[?Bruges]’
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘253’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–253’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This detailed but unidentified drawing depicts a town with a church at centre. Turner has drawn the view from the riverside, standing before an arched bridge. The church has Gothic flying buttresses and a Baroque steeple with cupola. There is a separate sketch above the principal view: at left buildings are visible, surrounded in part by what looks like a stone wall. An expansive landscape opens up beyond, with a river winding through it at right. This sketch is annotated with a barely legible inscription, which appears to read ‘Bruges’.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Bridge, with Houses and Church 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 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-bridge-with-houses-and-church-r1174843, accessed 25 April 2024.