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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner River with a Bridge of Boats 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘River with a Bridge of Boats’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 28 Verso:
River with a Bridge of Boats 1835
D30683
Turner Bequest CCCIV 28 a
Pencil on cream laid paper, 118 x 190 mm
Watermark with the Lion of the Seven Provinces
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘?ZM[...]’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This cursory view shows a river bend with shipping moored close to the banks at right and a town in the distance. The dashed-off inscription at bottom right reading ‘ZM[...]’ may indicate that this is Zell am Main, a town between Frankfurt and Würzburg situated on the River Main. Turner would have passed by this town as he navigated the river from Würzburg on his journey home via Frankfurt.

Alice Rylance-Watson
December 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘River with a Bridge of Boats 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-river-with-a-bridge-of-boats-r1187061, accessed 18 April 2024.