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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Two-Arched Bridge over a River, with a Large Building on a Hill Beyond 1795-6

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Two-Arched Bridge over a River, with a Large Building on a Hill Beyond’ 1795-6
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
A Two-Arched Bridge over a River, with a Large Building on a Hill Beyond 1795–6
D00869
Turner Bequest XXXII M
Pencil and watercolour on white wove paper, 145 x 236 mm
Stamped in black ‘XXXII M’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The building in the distance resembles the Belvedere at Claremont, near Esher, Surrey, a structure built by Sir John Vanbrugh in the Gothick style for Thomas Pelham, Earl of Clare (Later Duke of Newcastle) in 1717. If this identification is correct – and no exact topographical intention can be certain here – the river in the foreground in is the Mole.
Verso:
Blank; not stamped.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Two-Arched Bridge over a River, with a Large Building on a Hill Beyond 1795–6 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2012, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-two-arched-bridge-over-a-river-with-a-large-building-on-a-r1140050, accessed 22 November 2024.