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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Blenheim Palace and the Grand Bridge from near the Woodstock Gate 1830

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Blenheim Palace and the Grand Bridge from near the Woodstock Gate’ 1830
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 10 Verso:
Blenheim Palace and the Grand Bridge from near the Woodstock Gate 1830
D21991
Turner Bequest CCXXXVIII 10a
Pencil on white wove paper, 120 x 203 mm
Partial watermark ‘R Ba | 18’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
At the top left is the western elevation of the Woodstock Gate, in the form of a triumphal arch, with Blenheim Palace indicated in outline in the distance to the south. The Grand Bridge is shown across Queen Pool to the south-west in the continuation of the view on folio 11 recto opposite (D21992), where there is a subsidiary sketch, apparently of another bridge.
For other views of Blenheim, see under folio 2 verso (D21978).

Matthew Imms
August 2013

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Blenheim Palace and the Grand Bridge from near the Woodstock Gate 1830 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-blenheim-palace-and-the-grand-bridge-from-near-the-woodstock-r1148633, accessed 07 July 2024.