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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Roman Bridge at Pondel, Looking down the Cogne Valley to the Val d'Aosta 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Roman Bridge at Pondel, Looking down the Cogne Valley to the Val d'Aosta’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
The Roman Bridge at Pondel, Looking down the Cogne Valley to the Val d’Aosta 1836
D25444
Turner Bequest CCLXIII 321
Pencil and watercolour on paper, 282 x 259 mm
Stamped in black ‘CCLXIII–321’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject of this sketch, first identified by the Turner scholar David Hill, is the Roman bridge at Pondel, which bridges the Cogne Valley and a dramatic gorge.1 Turner’s viewpoint looks towards the village, shown to the right of the bridge, and down the valley towards Aosta. He made other drawings of the bridge on large sheets of loose paper, including a pencil sketch that denotes the view from the other side (Tate D34895; Turner Bequest CCCXLIV 401) and two other views (Tate D34896 and D34916; Turner Bequest CCCXLIV 402 and 421).
The sketches relate to Turner’s 1836 tour of the Alps, made in the company of the wealthy Scottish landowner H.A.J. Munro of Novar; for more information, see the Introduction to this section.
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Hill 2000, p.286.
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Elizabeth Jacklin
August 2019

How to cite

Elizabeth Jacklin, ‘The Roman Bridge at Pondel, Looking down the Cogne Valley to the Val d’Aosta 1836 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2019, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2023, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-roman-bridge-at-pondel-looking-down-the-cogne-valley-to-r1204580, accessed 18 May 2024.