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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Bridge, Paris 1832

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 70 Recto:
Bridge, Paris 1832
D24303
Turner Bequest CCLVII 70
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘70’ top left and ‘2’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLVII 70’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner worked a cursory view of a bridge crossing a river across the centre of this page. Though the exact location of this subject is indeterminate, Turner made multiple sketches of the riverside at Paris in the present volume, a list of which is provided in the sketchbook Introduction for comparison. For the watercolours of the city’s quaysides which Turner worked up with a view to engraved reproduction around this time, see Tate D24683–D24685 (Turner Bequest CCLIX 118–20). These culminated in several engravings in the 1835 volume of Turner’s Annual Tour: Wanderings by the Loire and Seine (1833–5; later reissued as Rivers of France); see Tate impressions T05621–T05623.

John Chu
January 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Bridge, Paris 1832 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2015, 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-paris-r1175331, accessed 28 March 2024.