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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Stirling: The Old Bridge over the Forth 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Stirling: The Old Bridge over the Forth’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 162 Verso:
Stirling: The Old Bridge over the Forth 1801
D03227
Turner Bequest LVI 160a
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
This very slight sketch is continued on folio 163 recto opposite (D03228; Turner Bequest LVI 161). The Old Bridge had been built in stone in the fifteenth century on the site of a much earlier wooden bridge that gave its name to a famous battle against the English. Turner’s rapid sketch clearly shows its general form, with four arches separated by triangular cutwaters. He probably stood on the bridge itself to make the drawing on folios163 verso–164 recto (D03229–D03230; Turner Bequest LVI 161a–162).
For other views of Stirling and general comments, see under folio 150 verso (D03203; Turner Bequest LVI 148a).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Stirling: The Old Bridge over the Forth 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-stirling-the-old-bridge-over-the-forth-r1179423, accessed 23 September 2024.