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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Waterfall among Rocks, with a Wooden Footbridge above It 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Waterfall among Rocks, with a Wooden Footbridge above It’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 18 Recto:
A Waterfall among Rocks, with a Wooden Footbridge above It 1801
D03311
Turner Bequest LVII 18
Pencil with some scraping–out on white cartridge paper prepared with a grey–buff ground, 118 x 149 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘18’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘LVII – 18’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the pages turned horizontally, this is a continuation of the drawing on folio 17 verso opposite (D03310). See also folios 20 verso–21 recto (D03316–D03317).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Waterfall among Rocks, with a Wooden Footbridge above It 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-waterfall-among-rocks-with-a-wooden-footbridge-above-it-r1179509, accessed 18 April 2024.