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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Tummel Bridge from the North-East 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Tummel Bridge from the North-East’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Tummel Bridge from the North–East 1801
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Pencil on white wove paper prepared with a grey–buff wash, 340 x 480 mm
Stamped in black with Turner Bequest monogram above ‘LVIII – 38’ bottom left
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The bridge is one of the forty that General George Wade constructed in the course of his programme of road–building in the Highlands in the years following the Jacobite rebellion of 1715; see the Introduction to the Scotch Lakes sketchbook (Tate; Turner Bequest LVI). It was built in 1733, carrying the road from Crieff to Dalnacardoch, and its elegant arch rearing out of the Highland wilderness formed a motif that Turner found pictorially irresistible. He drew it again on Tate D03418 and D03419 (Turner Bequest LVIII 39, 40).
This drawing is on the verso of a ‘Scottish Pencils’ composition (Tate D03417; Turner Bequest LVIII 38).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Tummel Bridge from the North–East 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-tummel-bridge-from-the-north-east-r1179804, accessed 18 September 2024.