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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Bridge Leading to a Castle or Monastery ?in the Dolomites 1840

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Bridge Leading to a Castle or Monastery ?in the Dolomites’ 1840
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 64 Verso:
A Bridge Leading to a Castle or Monastery ?in the Dolomites 1840
D32388
Turner Bequest CCCXX 64a
Pencil on white wove paper, 89 x 149 mm
Partial watermark ‘J H’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing was made with the page turned horizontally. What appears to be a wooden bridge leads to a castle or perhaps a monastery and nearby buildings above the bend of a river.
A long sequence of sketches, mostly characterised as ‘Mountains’ by Finberg (with occasional identifications and transcriptions of the place names marked by the artist), lies between folios 7 recto and 76 recto (D32275–D32411).1 See the sketchbook’s Introduction for the likely overall route between Bregenz and Venice.2

Matthew Imms
September 2018

1
See Finberg 1909, II, pp.1030–2.
2
See also Cecilia Powell, Turner in Germany, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1995, pp.65, 81 note 9.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Bridge Leading to a Castle or Monastery ?in the Dolomites 1840 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2018, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2019, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-bridge-leading-to-a-castle-or-monastery-in-the-dolomites-r1196622, accessed 25 April 2024.