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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Road with a Bridge, between Mountains Partly Hidden by Cloud 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Road with a Bridge, between Mountains Partly Hidden by Cloud’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 107 Verso:
A Road with a Bridge, between Mountains Partly Hidden by Cloud 1801
D03120
Turner Bequest 105a
Pencil on white wove paper, 184 x 114 mm
Partial watermark ‘C Wi | 17’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject is continued on folio 108 recto opposite (D03121; Turner Bequest LVI 106). Perhaps, if the inscription on that page is to be relied on, this is a scene at Auchlyne, in Glen Dochart between Crianlarich and Killin; the high mountains prominent here would tend to confirm such an idea.
Alternatively, the sketch may be wrongly identified: its context in this sketchbook suggests that it may show part of the Strath of Appin above Garth Castle. Finberg guessed that it is a mistake for Achloa,1 a tiny settlement on the south of the River Lyon east of Fortingall.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
Undated MS note by A.J. Finberg (died 1939) in an interleaved copy of Finberg 1909, Tate Britain Prints and Drawings Room, I, p.147.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Road with a Bridge, between Mountains Partly Hidden by Cloud 1801 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 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-road-with-a-bridge-between-mountains-partly-hidden-by-r1179315, accessed 26 April 2024.