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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Bridge and Monumental Buildings, Paris 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Bridge and Monumental Buildings, Paris’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 159 Recto:
Bridge and Monumental Buildings, Paris 1832
D24479
Turner Bequest CCLVII 159
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘159’ top left and ‘2’ top right, ascending
Stamped in black ‘CCLVII 159’ top right, ascending
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled the central strip of this page with studies of the monumental architecture of Paris and one of its stone bridges. Turner made multiple sketches of the Parisian riverside in the present volume, a list of which is provided in the sketchbook Introduction. 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 and Monumental Buildings, 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-and-monumental-buildings-paris-r1175507, accessed 21 September 2024.