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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Old Bridge at Poissy ?1829

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Old Bridge at Poissy’ ?1829
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 86 Verso:
The Old Bridge at Poissy ?1829
D23869
Turner Bequest CCLIII 86a
Pencil on pale cream laid paper, 107 x 156 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The page contains a sketch, drawn horizontally, of a view of a multi-arched bridge spanning a river, with a two-towered church in the background, and possibly a boat in the foreground. Finberg noted it simply as ‘Bridge’,1 but the location has been confirmed as Poissy.2 (For further information on the town, see under the recto; D23868.)
The church corresponds to the collegiate church, Collégiale Notre-Dame de Poissy, and the bridge to the old crossing, ruined portions of which remain in the present day, after it was destroyed in the Second World War.3 (For further information on the church, see under folio 91 verso; D23879.)

Caroline South
May 2017

1
Finberg 1909, II, p.771.
2
Warrell 1999, pp.210, 262 note 178; ?Ian Warrell, ‘Turner on the Seine: Topographical Index’, c.1999, Prints and Drawings Room, Tate Britain (printout in copy of Warrell 1999), p.4.
3
‘Le Pont Ancien et les Berges de Seine’, www.ville-poissy.fr, accessed 27 April 2017, http://www.ville-poissy.fr/index.php/cadre-de-vie/decouvrir-poissy/sites-et-monuments/le-pont-ancien-et-les-berges-de-seine.html.

How to cite

Caroline South, ‘The Old Bridge at Poissy ?1829 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2017, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2019, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-old-bridge-at-poissy-r1195775, accessed 20 September 2024.